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  "thread": {
    "id": 343,
    "subject": "The distance between the 20th Century and Severian's Urth",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-02-03T19:59:30+00:00",
    "last": "1998-02-03T19:59:30+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0510@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Derek Bell",
        "address": "dbell at maths.tcd.ie"
      },
      "date": "1998-02-03T19:59:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The distance between the 20th Century and Severian's Urth",
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          "text": "\tI imagine that there is quite a long gap between the two eras,\nbecause Severian mentions that rats in the library smear the covers of\nthe books in their own crude writing. Either this means that rats have\nnaturally developed this ability or somebody was tinkering with their\ngenes. In the latter case the time might be less, but it take quite a while\nto develop the ability to increase even a rat's intelligence to the\nlevel where they can write. \n\n\tDerek"
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