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  "thread": {
    "id": 3364,
    "subject": "Time: [Was: First Mail]",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-07-17T09:16:59+00:00",
    "last": "2002-07-17T09:16:59+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0207-1413@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "matthew.malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-07-17T09:16:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Time: [Was: First Mail]",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 16/07/2002 21:42:32 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nDavid A Baird wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Only 97K - hmmm, I'd always envidaged it as being much later, of the\norder\nof several million. But then again, I was thinking of a natural demise\nof\nthe sun although in this re-read I noticed that the Hierodules have\n'planted' a black hole in there to keep Urth at bay."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The 97 Kyear figure is _very_ debateable, and I for one hold it to be\ncompletely implausible ... we're talking a sufficient amount of time\nso that the ruins of ancient human civilizations have been uplifted in\nthe bodies of new mountains (which, of course, are then carved into the\nfigures of Urth's vain rulers). That doesn't happen in less than multiple\nmillions of years."
        },
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Yay!  Exactly!\n\nThe mines of Saltus and Severians walk down the cliff to Casdoe's house.\n\nThe evidence of the text does not appear to admit to any explanation\nexcept that geological ages have passed since there were first\ncivilisations of Urth.\n\nMatthew"
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