{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3015",
    "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.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
  },
  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 3015,
    "subject": "Old Sun",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-03-05T23:02:30+00:00",
    "last": "2002-03-05T23:02:30+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0203-290@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at cox.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-03-05T23:02:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Old Sun",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 01:09 AM 3/4/2002, you wrote:\nWho is responsible for the black hole in the sun is an important plot point,\nit seems to me, because it bears directly on the ultimate goal of the Urth\nCycle; the pretext for, and the coming of, the New Sun. If Man, in his\npresumptive arrogance, caused the wounding of the sun, that is one thing. If\nagents of the Increate caused it, as retribution, that is something else\nentirely. I have always adhered to the latter view, and I think the weight\nof evidence from the fifth volume of the series supports that view.\n\n-Roy"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "If Sev. is the New Sun, and a kind of \"new Christ,\" then the Old Sun is the \n\"old Adam.\" The black hole is a symbol of the depravity in the heart of \nman, which needs regeneration by the White Fountain of the Holy Spirit. Of \ncourse, it's not just a symbol. But I think that however the black hole got \nthere, it is intended as a pointer to the need for redemption.\n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}