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  "thread": {
    "id": 3629,
    "subject": "Free Live Free round table: Oz",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-12-01T03:27:34+00:00",
    "last": "2002-12-01T03:27:34+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2298@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice K. Turner",
        "address": "aturner6 at nyc.rr.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-01T03:27:34+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Free Live Free round table: Oz",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "From mantis:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Rostrum wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "The Four Thrones of Narnia, occupied\nby two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve who walk through a magical\ndoor which does something weird to time and changes them from children to\nadults and back again."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "That is an interesting parallel, and I'll leave it to our Oz experts to\nsay\nhow Narnia might be a British \"Oz.\"  For the couples I was mentioning\nbefore, well, the Narnia four are all siblings, iirc, and that would be\nincest."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I'm an Oz \"expert,\" and there is no connection whatever. I doubt that Lewis\never read Baum. But just for starters, Dorothy Betsey and Trot, three little\nAmerican girls, are children forever, somewhere between nine and eleven, but\nnever reaching puberty. Ozma is scarcely more--she is often referred to as\nthe \"girl-ruler.\" And Baum would never have been so treacherous to one of\nthem as Lewis was to Susan.\n[rest of long post snipped]\n\n-alga"
        }
      ]
    }
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