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  "thread": {
    "id": 3987,
    "subject": "Sphinx: Mother's mother",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-05-09T15:40:08+00:00",
    "last": "2003-05-09T16:12:59+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0305-3389@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2003-05-09T15:40:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sphinx: Mother's mother",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I was thinking about \"I am your mother, and your mother's mother\".  One riddle \nof the sphinx was \"Which daughter gives birth to her mother in turn?\" or \nsomething like that, and the answer was night and day.  Pretty banal, but \ncould that explain the line?  It doesn't seem to for me, but it seems similar \nsomehow.  I remain confused by it.\n\nMarc Aramini"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0305-3391@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at cox.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-05-09T16:12:59+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Sphinx: Mother's mother",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0305-3389@digest.urth.net>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 10:40 AM 5/9/2003, you wrote:\nI was thinking about \"I am your mother, and your mother's mother\".  One \nriddle\nof the sphinx was \"Which daughter gives birth to her mother in turn?\" or\nsomething like that, and the answer was night and day.  Pretty banal, but\ncould that explain the line?  It doesn't seem to for me, but it seems similar\nsomehow.  I remain confused by it.\n\nMarc Aramini"
        },
        {
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          "text": "Could it be this: Latro's lapses of memory between each day provide for him \na much fuller alternation of day and night than for other people.\n         I don't remember very much from the books. Which god did Latro \noffend? Someone connected with the sphinx? This god/goddess would be the \nauthor of his alternating condition.\n\nNutria"
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