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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3425",
    "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": 3425,
    "subject": "Coldhouse Den-die",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-08-26T17:59:19+00:00",
    "last": "2002-08-26T18:23:21+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0208-1605@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-08-26T17:59:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Coldhouse Den-die",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Blattid, regarding the coldhouse prank death, wrote:\n(Is this another candidate for when Den \"really\" died?)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, er, yes and no.\n\nIf Weer is lying about his age at the time (invalidating the big anchor for\nthe current operating timeline), then the coldhouse death could be his own,\njust as he might be a dead boy next to his chemistry set.\n\n(And he would lie about his age ostensibly to distance himself from the\nprank if he was the perpetrator, too.  In addition to lying about his age\nto avoid facing the fact that he himself died there.)\n\nBut if Weer is not lying about his age, and the victim's details are true,\nthen no, the death cannot be Weer's.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0208-1606@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-08-26T18:23:21+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Coldhouse Den-die",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0208-1605@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Blattid, regarding the coldhouse prank death, wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "(Is this another candidate for when Den \"really\" died?)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Well, er, yes and no.\n\nIf Weer is lying about his age at the time (invalidating the \nbig anchor for the current operating timeline), then the\ncoldhouse death could be his own, just as he might be a\ndead boy next to his chemistry set."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Which was in fact my point ... This is just a goof, really, but \nit's a stfnal idea that I've played with many time and never \ncome up with a good storyline for ... I've often had the idea \nof, well, if you can have multiple-sheaf futures, why not multiple-\nsheaf pasts? And then what if Alden, the Reasonably Friendly Ghost, \nactually has lived multiple versions of his life and died at \nseveral different points along the timeline ... — It would \ncertainly clear up (by making irrelevant) many of the \ninconsistencies in the storyline(s). So he died of a stroke, and\nhe died playing with his chemistry set, and he died in the \ncoldhouse prank ... Just a goof, as I said.\n\nBut I'm dead serious about the coldhouse == the barn."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}