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  "thread": {
    "id": 2844,
    "subject": "Animated prehistorical insights into the post temporal bestiary",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-11-16T00:56:28+00:00",
    "last": "2001-11-16T18:03:30+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n002.2@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-11-16T00:56:28+00:00",
      "subject": "Animated prehistorical insights into the post temporal bestiary",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "I missed the broadcast on telly tonight because I was out a meeting, but I'm\nlooking forward to watching a tape of \"Walking with Beasts\", the BBC's\nsequel to their excellent \"Walking with Dinosaurs\". The series uses the same\nstyle of sophisticated computer animation used in the earlier series but\nfocuses this time on prehistoric mammals and should therefore show many of\nthe strange creatures (smilodons etc) that we find mentioned in the pages of\nthe Urth cycle.\n\n(I'm assuming that \"Walking with Beasts\" is going to be shown in the States,\nand elsewhere? \"Walking with Dinosaurs\" was, and I think that I'm write in\nsaying that it had American co-funding.)\n\nThe creatures which inhabit Severian's world may be close analogues rather\nthan exact reincarnations of the extinct species whose names they bear, but\nI for one am looking forward to learning more about the bizarre originals\nand will hope to have a slightly better understanding of Urth's bestiary as\na result.\n\nI take Wolfe's decision to draw on the early mammals for his post-historic\nzoo to be a stroke of genius, analogous to his use of the Byzantine world\nfor some features of Urth's human society. For those of us who are not\nmediaeval specialists, the world of Byzantium is even less familiar than\nthat of ancient Rome. Similarly, unless we are mammalian palaeontologists,\nthe early mammals are probably even less well known than their forebears the\ndinosaurs. In selecting the nomenclature of Urth, Wolfe seems to have an\nunfailing ear for the interestingly obscure.\n\nNigel"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n003.2@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jerry Friedman",
        "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-11-16T18:03:30+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Animated prehistorical insights into the post temporal bestiary",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n002.2@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "--- Nigel Price <nigel.a.price at virgin.net> wrote:\nI missed the broadcast on telly tonight because I was out a meeting, but\nI'm\nlooking forward to watching a tape of \"Walking with Beasts\", the BBC's\nsequel to their excellent \"Walking with Dinosaurs\". The series uses the\nsame\nstyle of sophisticated computer animation used in the earlier series but\nfocuses this time on prehistoric mammals and should therefore show many\nof\nthe strange creatures (smilodons etc) that we find mentioned in the\npages of\nthe Urth cycle."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "...\n\nSounds like fun.  But no flightless birds?  You won't be able to see how\nThecla stalked?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jerry Friedman"
        }
      ]
    }
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