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  "thread": {
    "id": 4817,
    "subject": "unsubscribe",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2007-04-13T17:40:08+00:00",
    "last": "2007-06-25T07:19:06+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<2b6701c77df2$a61972a4$a120a8c0@4smartphone.snx>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew DeLuca",
        "address": "straylightrise at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-04-13T17:40:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) unsubscribe",
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          "text": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Dan'l Danehy-Oakes\" <danldo at gmail.com>\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" <urth at lists.urth.net>\nSent: 4/13/2007 1:38 PM\nSubject: Re: (urth) Vonnegut (1922-2007)"
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          "text": "On 4/13/07, don doggett <kingwukong at yahoo.com> wrote:\n\"Stuff happened\" is almost everything. \"Someone made\nstuff happen\" is usually laid over it by people trying\nto make sense of that \"stuff\". Christians hardly have\na lock on interesting fiction, nor are athiests\nexcluded from it."
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          "text": "The last point is certainly true; the first has some truth to it -- but,\nreally, in terms of narrative (and we are creatures of our narrativity),\nintentional actions are far more interesting than agentless actions.\n\nOne of the most impressive narrative tours-de-forces I have ever\nread was _Fire_, by George R. Stewart (author of the SF classic\n_Earth Abides_), which took a firestorm as its more-or-less\nprotagonist, and managed to give it agency without personializing\nit. He did the same thing, less successfully, for a storm in a book\ncalled (of all things) _Storm_."
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          "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant\n-----\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer\nhttp://www.danehyoakes.com\nSoon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations,\ninexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire\nsalons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards\nreaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful."
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      "from": {
        "name": "Geoffrey",
        "address": "gcgoodale at mac.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-06-24T16:43:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) unsubscribe",
      "in_reply_to": "<2b6701c77df2$a61972a4$a120a8c0@4smartphone.snx>",
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      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Dear Urth,\nWould you please take me off your mailing list,\nthanks,\n  Geoff Goodaie"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "from": {
        "name": "Chris",
        "address": "rasputin_ at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-06-25T07:19:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) unsubscribe",
      "in_reply_to": "<03E94B9B-AB6F-4721-AEA5-7B56EBA3A63B@mac.com>",
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          "text": "The link at the bottom of these posts (including your own) about \nsubscription/information will take you to:\n\nhttp://listserver.dreamhost.com/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net\n\nI believe that should handle it."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
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          "text": "Dear Urth,\nWould you please take me off your mailing list,\nthanks,\n  Geoff Goodaie\n_______________________________________________"
        }
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