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  "thread": {
    "id": 2768,
    "subject": "Daemon. And on. And on.",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-08-07T19:07:05+00:00",
    "last": "2001-08-07T19:07:05+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0615@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "littlesense at necronomicon.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2001-08-07T19:07:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Daemon. And on. And on.",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nbecause said child has read a moderate amount of SF/F, she has no\nproblem adapting when the word is revealed to mean something like an\nexternalized soul."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And later:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From all of which I stand by my\noriginal conclusion: that it is fairly unlikely that a child,\nreading THE GOLDEN COMPASS, will (as you originally put it)\nlearn that a word used by Christianity to mean an\nincarnation of evil originally meant something as\nharmless as \"spirit.\""
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        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "If the word 'daemon' is at some point \"revealed to mean something like an\nexternalized soul\", right at that point the child -knows- that a word with\nChristian connotations of evil is being used to mean something as harmless\nas 'spirit'. If she's spared my lesson in political etymology, fine. She's\nstill being given something to think about, which was my original argument."
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