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  "thread": {
    "id": 5140,
    "subject": "The Ziggurat and the \"petite\" lie",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2008-08-29T01:09:22+00:00",
    "last": "2008-08-29T11:36:21+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<48B74C42.2010401@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dave Tallman",
        "address": "davetallman at msn.com"
      },
      "date": "2008-08-29T01:09:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Ziggurat and the \"petite\" lie",
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          "text": "There's something very strange at the end of \"The Ziggurat.\" Emery is \ntrying to lie his way out of trouble and he tells the police that \n\"Tamar\" is an exchange student who is staying with them. A little later \nhe says:\n\n\"My wife calls her petite.\" The lie came easily, unbidden.\n\nWhat's going on here? He's telling a lie his wife can contradict. That \nmight make sense if they had a loving relationship and could collude \nbeforehand, but they are adversaries in a divorce case. Another possible \nexplanation is that he knows his wife and kids are dead. So do we need \nto dust off the Maximum Delusion theory I've seen in the archives?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<48B7DF35.1030704@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dave Tallman",
        "address": "davetallman at msn.com"
      },
      "date": "2008-08-29T11:36:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Ziggurat and the \"petite\" lie",
      "in_reply_to": "<48B74C42.2010401@gmail.com>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "What's going on here? He's telling a lie his wife can contradict. That \nmight make sense if they had a loving relationship and could collude \nbeforehand, but they are adversaries in a divorce case. Another possible \nexplanation is that he knows his wife and kids are dead. So do we need \nto dust off the Maximum Delusion theory I've seen in the archives"
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          "text": "It looks like he just isn't thinking clearly, which is understandable. \nHe doesn't believe his wife is dead, because he whispers to Tamar that  \nhis wife will not want a divorce after she learns of the new company. \nTamar is asleep and doesn't understand everything he says, so there is \nno reason for him to lie to her."
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