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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": 4066,
    "subject": "Severian and the skull",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-07-08T11:34:57+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-08T12:57:24+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3578@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Christopher Culver",
        "address": "christopher_culver at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-08T11:34:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Severian and the skull",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Marc Aramini wrote:\nThe recent discussion has prompted me to look once again at the end of Urth of the New Sun.  I think we can all agree that the skull that Severian finds at the bottom of the lake when he goes diving\nYou can count me out. I've never believed the skull was of a former Severian. I think that it is just an object which allows Severian to meditate on how many people he has killed to save Urth. From th\nChristopher Culver"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3579@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Bollen",
        "address": "abollen at internode.on.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-08T12:57:24+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Severian and the skull",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3578@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Christopher says:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "You can count me out. I've never believed the skull was of a former\nSeverian. I think that it is just an object which allows\nSeverian to meditate on how many people he has killed to save Urth."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Me too!\n\nI don't think relics of prototype Sev's or their worlds exist in our Sev's\nworld. At least, I don't see much reason to suppose they do.\nSev encountering his own corpse in UOTNS doesn't count, IMO: that was a\ndifferent kind of resurrection."
        }
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