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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/319",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 319,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v006.n022",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-01-30T19:51:46+00:00",
    "last": "1998-01-31T10:58:21+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0470@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-01-30T19:51:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v006.n022",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Wow, we're back in fettle!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Am I misguided or stating the obvious in guessing that\nReechy grew up to be Ymar?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "No, rana, you're right on the mark.\n\nteliss, I love your locution, but Ultan's mythic Alexandrian Library is\nhardly Thecla's \"local library!\"\n\nPatrick O---neat!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "He's asking us to look (really look) at the final two letters in the word:\n\"last.\"\n\nThey are S--the serpent, and t--the knife.\n\nst\n\nThey are pictographs. Symbols in their own right. The root of writing, no\ndoubt.\nAbstract representations of something else. Isn't there a symbol that\nincorporates both the snake & the sword? Isn't it the symbol of \"Doctor\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Or,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "if you will, \"Healer\"?\n\nThey are also symbols of sounds. They form the word \"Est.\"\n\nThey are also the abbreviation of the word \"Saint.\"\n\nAs a Saint is (in a sense) an abbreviation of God. Something greater and\nricher embodied in a smaller vessel."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "lasrach, this is so nice re BOTNS:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I would imagine that the version that Thecla & Sev read is similar to the\none Dr. Talos claims to have based his play on. That is, a colourful,\nmythic\nreworking of the \"facts\", which are more likely to be found in the Brown\nBook, purporting as it does to contain accounts of the original historical\nevents upon which the mythological corpus of the time was based....it is\nperhaps not\nunreasonable to allow the possibility that the version of tBotNS which\nThecla gets from the library relates an account from a parallel\nUrth>lasrach"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And Ratty, you're baaaaaack! Sinking your oversized incisors promptly into\nnewt's tail---lucky that newts can promptly regenerate their tails. Well,\ntaking the secular example of Freud and the cigar, I hope you will someday\nadmit that not every novelistic encounter with water is a baptism, not every\ninvitation to dine a eucharist. Or is that too much to ask?\n\n-alga-"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0480@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-01-31T10:58:21+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v006.n022",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0006-0470@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 07:51 PM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote:\n\nAnd Ratty, you're baaaaaack! Sinking your oversized incisors promptly into\nnewt's tail---lucky that newts can promptly regenerate their tails. Well,\ntaking the secular example of Freud and the cigar, I hope you will someday\nadmit that not every novelistic encounter with water is a baptism, not every\ninvitation to dine a eucharist. Or is that too much to ask?\n\n-alga-"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Slimy:\n\n\tWhere have I ever made such an assertion? Now, when it comes to Wolfe, I'm\npretty safe making the assertion, since it is fairly obvious. Also, since\nhe confirmed it.\n\tBlind Ultan's library may allude to Alexandria (I suspect it doth), but is\nprimarily Blind Borges's library in Buenos Aires. (Note the Borgesian intro\nto the series: I found this ms and translated it....).\n\nBig Nutria Rat"
        }
      ]
    }
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