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    "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.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 3230,
    "subject": "\"Under hill\"",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-05-07T21:07:15+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-08T17:07:45+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-909@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at op.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-07T21:07:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Under hill\"",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "New wolfe story online.\n\nhttp://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/under_hill.html\n\nHaven't read it yet\n\nPaul"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-929@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mark Millman",
        "address": "millman at heimdallr.dyndns.org"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-08T17:07:45+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: \"Under Hill\"",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0205-909@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Also, the dragon in Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea short\nstory \"The Rule of Names\" calls himself Mr. Under-\nhill before his disguise is breached.  Before that,\nhe poses as a somewhat ineffectual wizard.\n\nMark Millman\n(Nacre)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Tue, 7 May 2002, Josh Geller wrote:\nOn Tue, 7 May 2002, Matthew Davis wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "[D]oes the title allude\nto anything?  One of the\nhobbits went under the\nfalse name \"Mr Underhill\"\nbut nothing else leaps to\nmind."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "'Under Hill' is an old. old euphemism\nfor what's often called 'Faerie'\n('faerie' is also a euphemism; this is\nthe land of the Dead we are talking\nabout (see my post with the subject\n'Mound Dwellers')).\n\nThe main fairy in John Crowley's\n\"Little, Big\" is called Mrs. Underhill."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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