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  "thread": {
    "id": 3185,
    "subject": "Horizontal wisdom",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-04-20T20:25:00+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-20T20:25:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-729@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-20T20:25:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Horizontal wisdom",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "A few days ago, Nutria wrote concerning my rejection of Peter Wright's\nexplanation of Severian's adventures as a cynical exercise in\nextra-terrestrial manipulation:"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Yes, surely. This interpretation makes sense\nonly if Sev. is some kind of antichrist in an\nantiuniverse made by an antigod -- which is\nwhat I thought the first time through. But Wolfe\nhas made it plain that this is not the case at\nall, and the thesis does not stand up on rereading."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Yes! Absolutely!\n\nThank you, too, Nutria, for _lling me in on US conventions about\ncapitalisation following a semi-colon.\n\n(I've enjoyed your other _ne contributions to recent dicussions too.)\n\nNigel"
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