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  "thread": {
    "id": 4084,
    "subject": "The library and scribes",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-07-11T01:48:33+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-11T01:48:33+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3646@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lisa Schaffer-Doggett",
        "address": "harlekin at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-11T01:48:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: The library and scribes",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "It was written:\n\n  How extensive is the Library again?\n\nMy impression is that it contains every book written.  It's meant to be \nBorges' infinite library.  Probably Father Inire has something to do \nwith it's construction."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Doesn't Severian remark to the effect that 'surely the rabble of the\ncity are not permitted here'? I don't recall him receiving an answer,\ndo you?\n\nIn a society that does not have mechanical printing, where would be\nthe most likely place to find a scriptorium?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Plausible.\n\nBut no clue that the Commonwealth _is_ a society without mechanical\nprinting.  Ultan and Cyby are Curators not Scrivenors."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "My  other impression is that the Commonwealth has not seen any new \nbooks in a long time.  It is a society in utter stagnation.\n\nDon"
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