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  "thread": {
    "id": 5143,
    "subject": "The Floating Islands of Lake Diuturna",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2008-09-07T00:32:35+00:00",
    "last": "2008-09-07T00:36:09+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<606455.40658.qm@web83713.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Smith",
        "address": "jsmith2627 at att.net"
      },
      "date": "2008-09-07T00:32:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Floating Islands of Lake Diuturna",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "In The Sword of the Lictor, Wolfe populates Lake Diuturna with floating islands which move about with the wind.   This, I had thought, was another strange and exotic invention that the author used to separate our world from the future Urth.\n\nWell, I've been reading Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, a book I had always meant to read.   When Darwin gets to Lake Titicaca high in the Andes, he describes the floating islands in the lake.  \n\nLooking at Wikipedia, I find that even to this day there are Indians who live on the floating islands.\n\nSo what I took to be fantastic was simply fact.  I wonder if there are more such fantastic realities in TBOTNS.\n\n\nBest wishes,\n\nJack"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<3496.72.171.0.146.1220747769.squirrel@brunians.org>",
      "from": {
        "name": "brunians at brunians.org",
        "address": "brunians at brunians.org"
      },
      "date": "2008-09-07T00:36:09+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Floating Islands of Lake Diuturna",
      "in_reply_to": "<606455.40658.qm@web83713.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>",
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      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "In The Sword of the Lictor, Wolfe populates Lake Diuturna with floating\nislands which move about with the wind.   This, I had thought, was another\nstrange and exotic invention that the author used to separate our world\nfrom the future Urth.\n\nWell, I've been reading Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, a book I\nhad always meant to read.   When Darwin gets to Lake Titicaca high in the\nAndes, he describes the floating islands in the lake.\n\nLooking at Wikipedia, I find that even to this day there are Indians who\nlive on the floating islands."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Oh yeah. I thought everybody knew this.\n\n\n\n."
        }
      ]
    }
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