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  "thread": {
    "id": 51,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v001.n021",
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    "first": "1997-05-27T12:15:35+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-27T12:15:35+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0001-0081@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-27T12:15:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v001.n021",
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          "text": "From: Geoff Alex Cohen <gac at cs.duke.edu>\n\nI was there, and got to ask a bunch of questions.  There didn't\nseem to be many others in the chat - someone logged on as\n\"Hierodule\", someone named \"KevinM\" and someone named \"Bluejack\",\nas I recall."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Heirodule was me. A bit pretentious, but hey."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "SPOILERS, OF COURSE:\n\n\"New Sun\" takes place 1000-2000 years in the future (but this can't\nbe right!)."
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          "text": "That was wolfe's answer to the second part of my question. I asked How far\nin earth's future were the new sun books set, and how much time is bewteen\nTyphon aSd severian.  Wolfe said that the books don't explicitly say, and\nthat 1000-2000 years was his guess but he'd have to reread to be sure (!)\n\nI think he was answering the two parts of the question with two answers.\nHe made similar \"complex\" answers to other questions. The transcript might\nmake it more obvious that that was how he answered. (No transcript as of\n12:14 PM EDT 5/27/97\n\n\"Heirodule\"\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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