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  "thread": {
    "id": 4136,
    "subject": "Civet fishes Borges",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-07-29T19:42:18+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-29T19:42:18+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3823@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-29T19:42:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Civet fishes Borges",
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      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Civet quoted Josh and wrote:\nThecla's friend asked if the Fish was real, Father Inire told\nher that for an image to exist without something to reflect\nit is an impossibility. Therefore, the Fish would come into\nbeing (I just now noticed that it is a Fish)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I always liked that, though it really reminds me something similar I read\naround the same time but cannot remember. I am tempted to say that it was\nsomething from Borges \"Labyrinths\", but I might be thinking that just\nbecause the subject of Borges is fresh."
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          "text": "Maybe elsewhere, as well, but certainly from Borges's THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY\nBEINGS, entry \"Fauna of Mirrors.\"  Not to forget entry \"Baldanders\" (Gene\nWolfe claims, in CASTLE OF THE OTTER/CASTLE OF DAYS this entry is the\nsource of his Baldanders).\n\n=mantis="
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