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  "thread": {
    "id": 5548,
    "subject": "Peace: the fate of Lois",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2010-02-24T14:52:57+00:00",
    "last": "2010-02-24T14:52:57+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<cbf55b101002240652yba44b3j6332e0c50ed5c00@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
        "address": "gwern0 at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-02-24T14:52:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Peace: the fate of Lois",
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          "text": "On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:21 AM,  <blackwilbo at cs.com> wrote:\n“Peace: While digging in a pit for the treasure, Weer's shovel it's a rock\nand gives off a spark. Lois thinks it's the treasure and pulls her little\n(hidden) pistol. The next thing we learn from Weer is that Lois has left\ntown. Do you believe that” I don't. He buried her in that pit.\nI've been looking at Dougherty's telling of the tale of St. Brandon. It's\nan allegory of relationship of Den and Lois. St. Brandon is Den's good\nside, the king of the rats is his dark side, and Pussy is Lois. Brandon's\nship is the ship of matrimony and signing the ship's articles is the\nmarriage ceremony. They marry, quarrel a lot (Pussy vs. king of the rats)\nand after 2 or 3 years she leaves him. About 2 weeks after that, he goes to\nsee Louis Gold.\n\nThis is not coming out of thin air. All??the other details match up.\nVerifying that is left as an exercise for the reader.:-)\n\nblackwilbo"
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          "text": "I wonder about that. Allegories and analogies are treacherous\nterritory. Who is the Angel, then, and what are the pieces running off\ninto the woods?\n\nIf this story is an allegory of a key event in _Peace_, why does it\nshow up nigh identical (as far as I noticed) shorn of its _Peace_\nwrappings as a standalone story in _Book of Days_?\n\n(Also, it's a good thing to trim your emails to include only the\ncontext necessary.)"
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          "text": "gwern"
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