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  "thread": {
    "id": 3130,
    "subject": "How long gone",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-04-08T19:46:38+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-08T19:46:38+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-557@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-08T19:46:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) How long gone",
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          "text": "A couple of weeks ago I posted some numbers wrt Green's orbit, distance from\nBlue, time before and since conjunction, and how long Horn had been gone\nfrom Lizard. Those figures were based on statements in the first two SS\nbooks, and were rendered correctly. Briefly, it is twice stated, once by\nSinew (31) and once by Horn (38), near the beginning of OBW, that\nconjunction is two years away. Conjunction occurred while Silkhorn was in\nGaon. Hide told Silkhorn, during Blanko's war, that he (Silkhorn) had been\ngone for three years (IGJ, 294). The distance Green diverged from Blue was\nextrapolated from these time spans and Gagliardo's figures.\n\nHowever, in my second reading of RTTW, page 226 contradicts those time\nspans. Both Silkhorn and Hoof claim that it has been _not quite two years_\nsince Horn left Lizard. And this after they left Dorp. Huh? You see the\nproblem. Was he gone almost two years, or almost three years? Is there\nsomething far from obvious going on here that I just can't see? Or did Wolfe\nscrew up?\n\n-Roy"
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