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  "thread": {
    "id": 4,
    "subject": "Nessus",
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    "first": "1997-04-14T08:44:01+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-14T08:44:01+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0001-0005@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Scott Dalrymple",
        "address": "scottd at wycol.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-14T08:44:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Nessus",
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          "text": "I'm very interested in the Nessus as Buenos Aires vs. Alexandria\ndiscussion.  It seems to me that Alexandria, while intriguing symbolically,\ncan't be true literally, for the simple reason that the Library at\nAlexandria doesn't exist today-- therefore how can it exist a million years\nfrom now (absent some shenanigans by Jonas and the Green Man, which I'm as\nyet unwilling to entertain)?  I also don't have the passages at hand, but I\nremember many clues to suggest that South America was the correct\ncontinent.  As for plate tectonics, it is possible, but given the strength\nof the folklore in Severian's world (as well as Wolfe's penchant for\nleaving fair clues, however small), I'd expect that during his travels\nSeverian would learn something of such a cataclysmic event.\n\nAnd, regarding Vodalus's assertion that Urth has flipped on her axis, would\nthat matter?  To someone like Severian, wouldn't the world appear to be the\nsame?  He'd still be traveling toward Urth's belly to reach the tropical\nregions.  After all, North and South, while tied to poles, are somewhat\narbitrary constructs, aren't they?  Why couldn't we depict the world with\nthe South Pole on \"top\"?  Maybe we've got the whole universe upside-down.\n\n\nScott Dalrymple"
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