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  "thread": {
    "id": 508,
    "subject": "Hothouse",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-04-23T13:37:57+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-23T13:37:57+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0771@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-23T13:37:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Hothouse",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "1) saying the office is unchangeable, fixed--it is a memory, not the\n   real thing: another hint to the reader that Weer is dead.  It is a\n   preserved corpse of an office.\n\n2) the nails are also somewhat cruel, reminding us of \"A Christmas\n   Carol\"'s ghost Morely, who says he \"wears the chains he forged \n   in life\".  Weer is nailed to his memos."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Could they also be coffin nails?\n\nSomeone else writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"priest\" in a prominent role.  HOTHOUSE lacks any specific comparisons\nother than a future with a dying sun, but there's something of the\nsame melancholy."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Doesn't it also have photo-synthesizing humans? (like the Green Man?)\n\nBTW, I've updated my web site lately if you haven't looked at it in a\nwhile. http://world.std.com/~pduggan/wolfe.html\n\n\"I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, |  paul           + | +\nelated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I    |                 --|--\nhave to transmit my mental experiences lest I die.\" |                 + | +\n                     --  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy    |  pduggan at world.std.com"
        }
      ]
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