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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2679",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 2679,
    "subject": "The NECRONOMICON",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-06-13T13:32:59+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-13T15:20:01+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0475@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-13T13:32:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: The NECRONOMICON",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "mantis wrote:\nAch, Roy--he got you!<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "That's what I get for not doing the homework!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Since LUSTY LAWYER by Amanda Ros is the forgery (?) in PEACE, this is the\none for the invisible library: the others I assume are all real titles.<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't know about the rest, but of the NECRONOMICON, Gold claims to have\n\"just wrote it\" (215),  and that it was \"never mentioned in print anywhere\nuntil the providential gentleman I spoke of a few moments ago made the\nentire thing up. Now it has achieved reality . . .\" (216) So I'm confused.\nIf HPL made it up, and Gold wrote it, did (does) it exist or not? If not,\nwho gets credit for it in the Invisible Library?\n\n-Roy"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0476@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-13T15:20:01+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: The NECRONOMICON",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0030-0475@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Roy C. Lackey wrote:\nI don't know about the rest, but of the NECRONOMICON, Gold claims to have\n\"just wrote it\" (215),  and that it was \"never mentioned in print anywhere\nuntil the providential gentleman I spoke of a few moments ago made the\nentire thing up. Now it has achieved reality . . .\" (216) So I'm confused.\nIf HPL made it up, and Gold wrote it, did (does) it exist or not? If not,\nwho gets credit for it in the Invisible Library?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In the Peace universe, NECRONOMICON is a fictional book made up by HPL\nwhich Gold then \"wrote,\" inspired by HPL's idea, in order to dupe someone\ninto thinking that the book really exists.\n\nSo there are two imaginary titles: NECRONOMICON, a book of horrors\nimagined by HPL and Louis Gold's NECRONOMICON, a fake book of horrors\nimagined by Gene Wolfe.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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