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  "thread": {
    "id": 2776,
    "subject": "Clarification",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-08-10T10:10:06+00:00",
    "last": "2001-08-10T10:10:06+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0625@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "littlesense at necronomicon.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2001-08-10T10:10:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Clarification",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Dan'l wrote (quoting me):"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "She's still being given something to\nthink about, which was my original argument."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Well, no, it wasn't."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, yes, it was."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "You actually wrote,\nI would hope that a child reading Pullman's book might be\nvery interested to learn that a word used by Christianity\nto mean an incarnation of evil originally meant something\nas harmless as \"spirit\",  and might wonder what other little\nmisappropriations and mistakes may have taken place over\nthe years."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Yes, and -before- that, I wrote that I didn't agree that Pullman was using\nthe word 'daemon' solely to irritate, and that:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell probably irritated a few\neasily-irritated Christians in its time too, but what it was supposed to do\nwas make people think"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "That was my point. Provocative words being used to promote the process of\nindependent thought. I could have left it at that, but I chose to illustrate\nmy point with an example of how that might happen."
        }
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