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  "thread": {
    "id": 511,
    "subject": "Books",
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    "first": "1998-04-25T03:55:33+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-25T03:55:33+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0775@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-25T03:55:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Books",
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          "text": "Regarding _Acturus_ (I am a fan I guess), I think a link is what I think\nof as the medieval Christian viewpoint that suffering and death in this\nworld are transitory -- so it's not so dreadful that much of Urth's\npopulation was drowned at the end of UotNS, or indeed that criminals must\nbe tortured then executed in payment for their acts.  \n\nI doubt it is a direct influence, but _Tirant Lo Blanc_ has resonances\nwith BotNS to me (a long time since I read the former unfortunately, so \nI can't be more specific).\n\n| David Duffy.                                                    ,-_|\\\n| email: davidD at qimr.edu.au  ph: INT+61+7+3362 0217 fax: +0101   /     *\n| Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research    \\_,-._/\n| 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia                v "
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