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  "thread": {
    "id": 3399,
    "subject": "PEACE INDEXICON timeline",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-08-08T20:58:00+00:00",
    "last": "2002-08-08T20:58:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0208-1549@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-08-08T20:58:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) PEACE INDEXICON timeline",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Robert B. writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I was going by the timeline in the Peace Indexicon, where under the Golden\nYear, six events are listed, including the following: \"Charlie Turner, the\ndog man, arrives unexpectedly.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ah, now I understand the confusion! The timeline you were looking at was the\none mantis made based on the _Liberty_ magazine clue and included in the\n_prototype_ for the _Peace Indexicon_. The timeline that appeared in the\nfinal printing of _Peace Indexicon_ was considerably revised, reflecting\nfurther thought and refinement, and some terminology changed. The online\nversion of the timeline at http://www.siriusfiction.com/ is fundamentally\nthe same as the print version."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "But how can this be? Den's stroke is years in the future--long after he has\nsex with Sherry Gold. It's clearly impossible--and yet there it is, right\non\nthe page before us. Possible solutions include: 1) post-stroke Den is\nlooking back to the encounter and re-imagining it from the perspective of\nhis current present, complete with revisionist dialogue; 2) Den, adrift in\na\nmaze of memories, is conflating events, as confused or disoriented as\nanyone\nwho's suffered a stroke, or in the twilight of their life has vivid\nrecollections of their childhood, but can't remember what they had to eat\nyesterday."
        },
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I opt for solution #1. There are other examples of anachronistic dialogue.\n\n-Roy"
        }
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