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  "thread": {
    "id": 2553,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v030.n061",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-01-23T23:36:01+00:00",
    "last": "2001-01-23T23:36:01+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0259@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2001-01-23T23:36:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v030.n061",
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          "text": "Rostrum wrote:\nReading \"A Story,\" I got the impression that the field was hiding St. Anne\nfrom an already-settled-by-humans St. Croix, not shielding the whole\nsystem from Earth.  In the story, the humans show up almost instantly\nafter Shadowchild terminates the song (which seems odd..."
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          "text": "I think we're in the wrong worldview here.  The song is magical, so\nits effects break down immediately from the point of view of a pre-Contact\nnarrator, no matter how acausal that appears to science fiction critics ;)\n\nI would have thought that any shielding effects on foreigners would be psychic\nin nature...their own perception would be that they just hadn't got around to\ncolonizing St Anne yet.\n\n\n\n| David Duffy.                                                     ,-_|\\\n| email: davidD at qimr.edu.au  ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101    /     *\n| Epidemiology Unit, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research \\_,-._/\n| 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia                 v"
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