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  "thread": {
    "id": 391,
    "subject": "Of dogs and wolves",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-03-02T10:23:15+00:00",
    "last": "1998-03-02T10:23:15+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0007-0578@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Cash",
        "address": "cash at rsn.hp.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-02T10:23:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Of dogs and wolves",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: David_Lebling at avid.com"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I think the narrator is a dog, specifically a domestic dog who has\nfallen out of (or ejected from) the car his humans are riding in. ..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Of course, I'm not saying the narrator _is_ a dog literally, but in the\nsame sense that the Wiggikki are wolves, and so forth.  The robots obey\n...\nAgain, I'm not claiming this story is the dream of a dog, but that that\nthe narrator fills the dog's role in the story."
        },
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          "text": "That makes a lot of sense to me. The fact that all the other \"people\" in\nthe story are animals (in the same sense, perhaps, that Cordwainer\nSmith's \"underpeople\" are animals) makes one ask, \"And what kind of\nanimal are _you_?\" of the narrator. It's plain that he's not the same\nsort of being as drives the Great Sleigh, since he doesn't have angelic\nwings, but he seems to be closely associated with these beings.\nTherefore, \"dog\" seems to be a very good possibility. \n\nJust an enlisted man's opinion.\n\nSgt. Rock"
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