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  "thread": {
    "id": 3187,
    "subject": "the sound of one hand laughing",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-04-21T16:46:14+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-22T10:06:46+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-734@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-21T16:46:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) the sound of one hand laughing",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Regarding a timeline for 5HC that puts humans originating from another star"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "system on Gondwanaland, Tony Ellis wrote:\nIf there's any actual evidence in 5HC to back up this theory I'm genuinely\ninterested to hear it - but I can't think of any."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Adam Stephanides, re-reading the Gene Wolfe interview (1992), quotes and\nresponds:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "GW: No. I thought of it as a long past universe. Something that we are\nrepeating rather than something that we are."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Wolfe said this?  I'm quite surprised, even shocked.  I'm pretty much of an\nintentionalist, but (without having reread all the books) this strikes me as\na pointless complication with no textual warrant."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "=mantis=\n\n\nSIRIUS FICTION\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\n36 Lexicons left until OP!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-743@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "littlesense at necronomicon.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-22T10:06:46+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) the sound of one hand laughing",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0204-734@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Hmm. It's not clear what point is being made here, but I'm sure it can't be\nthat we should be satisfied with explanations of Wolfe's stories that are in\nno way backed-up by the stories themselves. :-)"
        }
      ]
    }
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