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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2842",
    "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": 2842,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v030.n200",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2001-10-31T15:58:53+00:00",
    "last": "2001-10-31T21:24:48+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n001.1@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-10-31T15:58:53+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: Digest urth.v030.n200",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Oh--any hints on where in TBotSS I should look for the history by the guy\nfrom Chicago?  I have only a vague memory of that."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"In addition [to Scleroderma's account], there was a man in Urbasecundus\nwho was said to have produced a similar book, although I had never seen\nit.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Slow learner department: It suddenly hit me that the \"man in Urbasecundus\"\nis Gene Wolfe, and the \"similar book\" is _his_ text of the BotLS.\n\nDuh.\n\n--Dan'l"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n001.2@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-10-31T19:05:51+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) RE: Digest urth.v030.n200",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n001.1@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nSlow learner department: It suddenly hit me that the \"man in Urbasecundus\"\nis Gene Wolfe, and the \"similar book\" is _his_ text of the BotLS."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Which should make you wonder about the differences between Wolfe's version\nand Horn's...\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n001.3@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jerry Friedman",
        "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-10-31T21:24:48+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) RE: Digest urth.v030.n200",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n001.2@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <ddanehy at siebel.com> wrote:\nOh--any hints on where in TBotSS I should look for the history by the\nguy\nfrom Chicago?  I have only a vague memory of that."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "\"In addition [to Scleroderma's account], there was a man in\nUrbasecundus\nwho was said to have produced a similar book, although I had never\nseen\nit.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Slow learner department: It suddenly hit me that the \"man in\nUrbasecundus\"\nis Gene Wolfe, and the \"similar book\" is _his_ text of the BotLS.\n\nDuh."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, at least it hit you without your being told.  I didn't get it even\nwith Mantis's hint (Chicago).  What I e-mailed to Brian the Invisible\nLibrarian was that it was presumably about Urbs, but I think I should\ncorrect that.  Maybe just\n\nPseudo-Author: a man from Urbasecundus\nPseudo-Title: unknown\nComments: another history of the same events"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jerry Friedman"
        }
      ]
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