{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3808",
    "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.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
  },
  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 3808,
    "subject": "DOORS: Tina and Hethor's love doll",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-01-24T17:56:56+00:00",
    "last": "2003-01-24T17:56:56+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2810@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-24T17:56:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) DOORS: Tina and Hethor's love doll",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Hello there John Vik,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I hope I'm not pushing through a grown-over and old road but I remember\ntowards the end of TSOTT when the sailor accosts Severian and rails about\nhis (lost?) doll.  Many years ago I memorized this speech to use as an\naudition piece, and no I didn't get the part, but I do remember all the\nblank looks I got.  Is there a connection here with Tina, or am I way, way\noff base?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "That sailor is Hethor, and his \"crazy\" speech contains perhaps our first\nglimpse of the many faces of Tzadkiel, who is captain and figurehead and\nship and more.  In URTH, Tzadkiel also has her exiled part, the little\nfairy by Brook Madregot: this part is maybe the closest parallel to Lara\nand Tina.\n\nIf Hethor's \"paracoita\" doll was also a \"little Tzaddy\" . . . eek.  A\npossibility.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}