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  "thread": {
    "id": 5695,
    "subject": "BOTNS Comic preview",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2010-08-09T20:42:19+00:00",
    "last": "2010-08-09T22:59:22+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<4C60682B.8000706@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-08-09T20:42:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BOTNS Comic preview",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "The first couple of pages, featuring Master Palaemon:\n\nhttp://mordicai.livejournal.com/1772247.html"
        },
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\nIEEE Student Chapter Blog at\n< http://ieeetamut.org >"
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<AANLkTinTizEWzLTx0BX9OiSyw_MTVifJJm_1tD8Zn9zH@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lane Haygood",
        "address": "lhaygood at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-08-09T20:49:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BOTNS Comic preview",
      "in_reply_to": "<4C60682B.8000706@io.com>",
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          "text": "Is it bad that I want to log in to my little-used LJ account to post a\nlink to the poor beleaugered soul in the comments, directing him/her\nto this list?  I mean, we may not be able to shed any actual light on\nthe reader's confusion with the BOTNS, but at least we can offer up\npages upon pages of interesting obfuscation.\n\nThat said, not a terrible fan of the artwork, but I'd read it all the\nsame, to see if the artists' visions match up to the one playing\nthrough my head when I read it.\n\nLH"
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:\nThe first couple of pages, featuring Master Palaemon:\n\nhttp://mordicai.livejournal.com/1772247.html\n\n\n--\nJeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\nIEEE Student Chapter Blog at\n< http://ieeetamut.org >\n_______________________________________________"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<4C60884A.7030802@hyraxes.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dave Lebling",
        "address": "dlebling at hyraxes.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-08-09T22:59:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BOTNS Comic preview",
      "in_reply_to": "<AANLkTinTizEWzLTx0BX9OiSyw_MTVifJJm_1tD8Zn9zH@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Yes, it's bad. Let him read it through at least once on his own before \ngetting all the answers (and the different versions of the answers) here.\n\nThe comic is pretty good (unlike Lane I rather like the artwork), and \ndoes less damage to the work than Peter Jackson did to Tolkien. Only \nthree issues were published, alas.\n\n-- Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha"
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          "text": "Lane Haygood wrote:\nIs it bad that I want to log in to my little-used LJ account to post a\nlink to the poor beleaugered soul in the comments, directing him/her\nto this list?  I mean, we may not be able to shed any actual light on\nthe reader's confusion with the BOTNS, but at least we can offer up\npages upon pages of interesting obfuscation.\n\nThat said, not a terrible fan of the artwork, but I'd read it all the\nsame, to see if the artists' visions match up to the one playing\nthrough my head when I read it.\n\nLH"
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