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  "thread": {
    "id": 3530,
    "subject": "PEACE: oh wabe the wabing wabe",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-10-30T18:01:14+00:00",
    "last": "2002-10-30T18:01:14+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0210-1992@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-10-30T18:01:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) PEACE: oh wabe the wabing wabe",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": " >----------------------\n >The grass plot round a sundial ... because it goes a long way before it,\nand a long way behind it ... and a long way beyond it on each side."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "-----------------------\n\nThis is word play. The sound of the word \"way\" is combined with the sound\nof the common first letter of \"before,\" \"behind\" and \"beyond\" to produce\nthe word \"wabe.\" (My apologies to everyone who already understood this\nperfectly.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Hey, does this mean it is pronounced \"WAY-bee,\" to rhyme with \"baby\"?  I\nthought it was \"WAYB\" to rhyme with \"babe\"!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"WAYB\" is, of course, the canonical pronunciation. Considering that I\nmade a special effort to phrase my explanation above in such a way as\nto prevent anyone reading it from arriving at \"WAY-bee,\" the depth of\nmy failure is all the more humiliating. <g>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "No, William, the fault is mine and I knew it shortly after I posted the\nWAY-bee note.  I had taken the LC quote as leaning on the BEE-fore and\nBEE-hind, when in fact for all I know his pronunciation was \"buh\" or \"b'\";\nI compounded my error by misreading your gloss on the \"sound\" of the common\nfirst letter (\"b'\") as the \"name\" of the common first letter (\"bee\").\nWonderland tries to teach us the difference between names and what a thing\nis called (or in this case, names and what a letter \"says\"), etc., but I\noften mix them up.\n\nI was hoping that the whole thing would pass without further comment, but\nnow I welcome the opportunity to make my apology.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\"There's a vorpal bunny chomping on my wabe!\""
        }
      ]
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