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  "thread": {
    "id": 5632,
    "subject": "prophesied flood",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2010-06-10T23:42:40+00:00",
    "last": "2010-06-11T01:01:46+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<AANLkTin1ZoHE_x_rFE2OWWdpFWccW4ycuF-qkzcNJ6R9@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ash Crill",
        "address": "ashcrill at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-06-10T23:42:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) prophesied flood",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Typhon - or whoever - was trying to mitigate global cataclysm.\n\nRemember, in his mind, Typhon is doing good.\n\nThere is an old idea of global floods, that sea level would rise all over\nthe World at the same time.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be enough water for this, but back in the day the\nidea was seriously proposed for a while.\n\nSo if this was what was happening, building a huge wall around a large\narea might work for saving a significant proportion of the World's\npopulation."
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          "text": "I like the idea of the wall as a flood-protection barrier.\n\nIts even possible that one of the Monarchs happened to read or hear part of\nThe Book of The New Sun and was aware that its prophesied coming would bring\na world-wide flood."
        }
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    {
      "message_id": "<AANLkTilqwIQCFAPtvOTSPpm6oEw7pwe2PqP3tWV0a1ry@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Caswell",
        "address": "jandcaswell at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-06-11T01:01:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) prophesied flood",
      "in_reply_to": "<AANLkTin1ZoHE_x_rFE2OWWdpFWccW4ycuF-qkzcNJ6R9@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "I like the idea of the wall as a flood-protection barrier."
        },
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Its even possible that one of the Monarchs happened to read or hear part of\nThe Book of The New Sun and was aware that its prophesied coming would bring\na world-wide flood."
        },
        {
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          "text": "This is certainly an interesting idea, but the idea of the incredible\nupheaval that we witnessed in UOTNS was general knowledge, or so it seemed\nto me."
        }
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