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  "thread": {
    "id": 552,
    "subject": "Decimal Severians; Catch-22",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-04T09:53:01+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-04T09:53:01+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0010-0077@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-04T09:53:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Decimal Severians; Catch-22",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: C R Culver <CRCulver at aol.com>\nThe fact that people believe in Sev's time that the Conciliator died\nleads me\nto suspect they had a body as evidence."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Which brings up the further possibility that there was an iteration of\nthe Conciliator (Sev3.5, or thereabouts?) who was killed by the civil\nauthorities and buried in the cemetary of Nessus, with funerary\ndecorations provided by someone who was a wealthy sympathizer.\n\nParallels with any other Conciliators are left as an exercise for the\nreader."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "mantis, going to Heller and back:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And keep in mind that Texas A & M = TAM, which reversed is the beginning\nof MATachin Tower.\n\nMore seriously, I've been struck since first reading _TBONS_ by these\ncorrespondences, though as usual you've taken them farther than I would\nhave thought possible.  One of my favorite passages (to add to another\nthread) is where Severian is being questioned about the war (by Master\nAsh?), and he grumps about how in Nessus it's merely a rumor; the\nresponse is, \"I did not realize your Commonwealth was so strong.\" A\nconversation about the Korean War with a Martian might have gone much\nthe same.\n\n      -viz\n      (david_lebling at avid.com)"
        }
      ]
    }
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