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  "thread": {
    "id": 531,
    "subject": "Hello, and a rehash of k",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-01T14:12:51+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-01T14:12:51+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0010-0039@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-01T14:12:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Hello, and a rehash of k",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "                                                                      \n01/05/98\n                                                                      09:51\n RE>Hello, and a rehash of kimleesoong"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "FunkMonkey wrote:\nFirst I will touch on my ideas of how far in the future Urth is.  It has \nalways been my contention that as Ushas had replaced Urth after the \ncataclysm, Urth had replaced Earth after some terreble cataclysm befell\nit. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Cataclysm? What cataclysm? :-)\nOne of the many many things I've always liked about TBOTNS is \nthat it _doesn't_ follow that well-worn path of \"Earth: 500 years after\nthe Great Meteor Storm\", or \"Earth: 800 years after the Nuclear\nDeluge\", or whatever. We are at a time so remotely far into the \nfuture that civilization has just fizzled out, \"not with a bang, but\nwith a whimper\".\n\nWolfe confirms this in the The Castle of the Otter, where he talks\nabout Urth being the \"do-nothing future\", where humanity \"stays\nat home... and waits for the money to run out.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "We are told all in the antechamber are decendents from ONE mythic\nfigure, kimleesoong."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, we're told that KLS is the prisoner from whom the family\nJonas questions count their descent. That's not quite the same\nthing. The very fact that the discrete group of prisoners who question\nJonas can be called a \"family\" tells us that the inhabitants of the \nantechamber aren't one homogenous body. If they were all\ndescended from KLS, or even thought they were, wouldn't they\nall be one family? And notice that Jonas talks about \"the original\nprisoners from whom they are descended\", rather than \"original \nprisoner\"."
        }
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