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    "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.",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 3833,
    "subject": "\"Castaway\" with Spoilers",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2003-02-07T18:23:26+00:00",
    "last": "2003-02-07T18:32:06+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0302-2892@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-02-07T18:23:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Castaway\" with Spoilers",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "So we are all in agreement that the narrator is female?\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0302-2893@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-02-07T18:27:57+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) \"Castaway\" with Spoilers",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0302-2892@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Mantis asked:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "So we are all in agreement that the narrator is female?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Huh?!? Sputter!?! \n\nYou know, the question of what sex (or age, or race, or any \nother physical characteristic) of the narrator never came up \nin my mind. Not once. In two readings less than two days \napart ... \n\nSo, uh, any particular reason for thinking this? (I don't\nthink the \"I love you\" is intended that way...)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0302-2895@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Fernando Q. Gouvea",
        "address": "fqgouvea at colby.edu"
      },
      "date": "2003-02-07T18:32:06+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) \"Castaway\" with Spoilers",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0302-2893@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nMantis asked:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "So we are all in agreement that the narrator is female?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Huh?!? Sputter!?!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I must say I had the same reaction as Mantis, that the narrator was\nfemale. Perhaps this is why the castaway would tend to open up to the\nnarrator while resisting his official debriefers.\n\nFernando\n\n============================================================================\nFernando Q. Gouvea\nDept. of Mathematics                            Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online\nColby College                                   http://www.maa.org\nWaterville, ME 04901\nfqgouvea at colby.edu\n\nIt's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.\n  -- Steven Wright"
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