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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2685",
    "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": 2685,
    "subject": "necronomicon",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2001-06-15T10:49:24+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-17T09:58:57+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0485@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-15T10:49:24+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) necronomicon",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "With all this talk of fake books, I just wanted to point out that someone has \nreally written a Necronomicon, I saw a copy in Barnes and Nobles, purporting \nto be the ancient book.  You can pick up a copy, too!  Since it has come into \nreal existence, does it really qualify for the library of imaginary books?  \nOnce you become real, you can't ever become unreal (or something like that bit \nof philosophy can be found in The Velveteen Rabbit)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0486@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-15T16:33:39+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) necronomicon",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0030-0485@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "maa32 wrote:\nWith all this talk of fake books, I just wanted to point out that\nsomeone has really written a Necronomicon, I saw a copy in Barnes\nand Nobles, purporting to be the ancient book.  You can pick up a\ncopy, too!  Since it has come into real existence, does it really\nqualify for the library of imaginary books?  Once you become real,\nyou can't ever become unreal (or something like that bit of\nphilosophy can be found in The Velveteen Rabbit)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't know if this is the same one, but one of the \"Necronomicons\"\nwas partly the product of occasional list contributor Dave Langford.\nPerhaps he knows more about the spurious history of the book."
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0487@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-17T09:58:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Necronomicon",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0030-0486@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "There have actually been at least half a dozen books published under\nthat title now, including a collection of H.R.Giger's horrid-lovely\nartwork.\n\n--Dan'l"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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