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    "id": 2943,
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    "first": "2002-02-10T22:06:14+00:00",
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-124@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andy Robertson",
        "address": "andywrobertson at clara.co.uk"
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      "date": "2002-02-10T22:06:14+00:00",
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          "text": "----- Original Message -----"
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          "text": "From: \"Michael Andre-Driussi\" <mantis at siriusfiction.com>\nHartshorn wrote:"
        },
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          "kind": "quote",
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          "text": "----- Original Message -----\nFrom: \"Michael Andre-Driussi\" <mantis at siriusfiction.com>"
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          "text": "So the short form would be to say: \"The signature phrase 'hour of\ntrust'\napplies equally to both the corporate and the rebel forces, not just\nthe\ncorporate forces as one might believe after following the viewpoint\ncharacter.\""
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          "text": "Exactly - as I read the story.\n\nTo the other, the losing, side, it is a lethal betrayal of the deepest\nform\nof human trust."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "No, no! The losing side fails because they are decadent, corrupt, and\nbungling; they lack the creative vision, and only lead through dominance,\nmanipulation, and coercion, rather than leading by example."
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          "text": "Uh, I thought I said that .......      No, we are only arguing about the\nwords here.\n\nThe central point of this story is the need to build an actual moral\ncommunity, a nation, to fight a war (or indeed to do anything else).\n\nThe Corporates are what is left when parasites and carpetbaggers have eaten\nthe old living Republic from the inside.  They have no moral relationship\nwith each other at all.\n\nThe revolutionaries are a strange new growth, springing out of the corpse,\npoisonous but alive.\n\n     hartshorn\n\n\n(on all other points, I yield, I yield . . . . .  spare my life!!!)"
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