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  "thread": {
    "id": 375,
    "subject": "Black Sun, Wh",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-02-16T16:02:38+00:00",
    "last": "1998-02-16T16:02:38+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0007-0558@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-02-16T16:02:38+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Re: (urth) Black Sun, Wh",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "                                                                      16/02/98\n                                                                      09:37\n RE>Re: (urth) Black Sun, White Fountain"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Kieran Cleary wrote:\nSo to be explicit: It seems plausible that the black hole in the Old Sun is\n*directly* connected to the White Fountain. Energy/matter exiting through\nthe black hole in the Old Sun appears from the mouth of the White Fountain."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I love the economy of this theory, but... We are told that the White Fountain\nis releasing energy from another universe into our own. Also, In TUOTNS we\nget to see the White Fountain being created. Since this takes place in\nYesod I would assume that this is the universe from which the fountain\ndraws its energy."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Rostrum wrote:\nExcept I still obviously don't understand anything because if the world\nSeverian returns to is a whole new universe, then the Urth of the first\nfour books never gets a New Sun, it just dies with the old one."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Severian doesn't return to a new universe. He visits a new one when he\ngoes to Yesod, but the universe he returns to is the same old one he\nleft."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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