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  "thread": {
    "id": 4566,
    "subject": "Just picked up",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2006-04-08T19:33:12+00:00",
    "last": "2006-04-10T01:32:55+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<62d001350604081233l47d8d50oab67f62387332844@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "OOC 1992",
        "address": "ooc1992 at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2006-04-08T19:33:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Just picked up",
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          "text": "Just picked up the Book of the New Sun. Cannot put it down, wonderful\nreading. I have heard of this book for some time. When does it explain the\nhow the planet went from Earth to Urth- a history of the process as it were?\n\nOOC"
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          "text": "On my virtual porch here in New Orleans at:\n\nhttp://sanctumsporch.blogspot.com/"
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    {
      "message_id": "<1f7617370604081400r62183e28w96f8f72b4e0e471@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "danldo at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2006-04-08T21:00:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Just picked up",
      "in_reply_to": "<62d001350604081233l47d8d50oab67f62387332844@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "On 4/8/06, OOC 1992 <ooc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:\nJust picked up the Book of the New Sun. Cannot put it down, wonderful\nreading. I have heard of this book for some time. When does it explain the\nhow the planet went from Earth to Urth- a history of the process as it were?"
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          "text": "It doesn't.\n\nIn some external comments, Wolfe has stated that there is no\nreal process: that this is the \"do-nothing\" future of Earth where\nwe neither really solve any of our big problems nor quite ever\nsuccumb to them. This is (like so many Lupine extratextual\nstatements) a bit evasive, as it does not explain a great deal...\n\n--Dan'l"
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          "text": "I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.\n                        -- St Teresa of Avila\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer"
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    {
      "message_id": "<4439B5C7.7020706@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
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      "date": "2006-04-10T01:32:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Just picked up",
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          "text": "OOC 1992 wrote:\nJust picked up the Book of the New Sun. Cannot put it down, wonderful \nreading. I have heard of this book for some time. When does it explain \nthe how the planet went from Earth to Urth- a history of the process as \nit were?"
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          "text": "Some of that is picked up as you go along, and some is spelled out in \nthe afterword of SHADOW."
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\n< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >"
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