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  "thread": {
    "id": 3846,
    "subject": "Two heads are better than one",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-02-11T12:29:53+00:00",
    "last": "2003-02-11T12:29:53+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0302-2925@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.aprice at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-02-11T12:29:53+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Two heads are better than one",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "In response to my precipitate endorsement, well after six years, anyway, of\nKevin McGuire's suggestion that the grafting of Mr Burns' head onto Homer's\nbody in an episode of \"The Simpsons\" might represent a nod, or perhaps two\nnods, to the grafting of Typhon's head onto Piaton in TBotNS, Crush\nrejoins..."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I'd much prefer that this were so and I plan\nto use it to recommend Gene Wolfe to my\nSimpson-crazed friends, however..."
        },
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          "text": "..And then goes on to cite cogent reasons and plausible sources.\n\nAh, well, yes, indeed...he could be right!\n\nTrying not to feel too crushed, I can only note that the master-slave\nrelationship of Mr Burns and his employee Homer rather neatly parodies that\nbetween the tyrant Typhon and his hapless slave Piaton. Whether this is also\ntrue in the two bicephalic epics that Crush refers to, I cannot say.\n\nNigel\n\nHeu Rostrum!\nFelix cum aliquis me sapientem arbitratur.\nUbique in terra noctis omnes me stultum noverunt."
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