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  "thread": {
    "id": 2607,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v030.n098",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-27T09:10:08+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-27T09:10:08+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0349@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-27T09:10:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) RE: Digest urth.v030.n098",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "William Ansley wrote:\nI felt I should warn people on this list of a facet of the books\nthat was potentially offensive; that was unnecessary. All of the\npeople who post messages to this list are obviously too\nsophisticated to be offended by any such thing."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Au contraire: I am in fact too sophisticated _not_ to be offended\nby religious bigotry, whether it favors or disfavors mine own \nbelief-system. I find, e.g., books like \"This Present Darkness\" \nquite as intolerable as, I suspect, I should find the Pullmans.\n\n\nOn the other hand, you also wrote (in another message):"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "... I also thought the armored bears ... were very well done."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And I have to admit, I'm curious about any British writer \ncosmpolitan enough to write about the typically American\nconcern with our right to keep and arm bears. Even the\nbest British writers tend to be a bit provincial. (Of course,\nthis is true of American writers, too. And French writers. \nAnd... Come to think of it, excessive cosmopolitanism is \nalmost always a flaw in a writer...)\n\n--Dan'l"
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