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  "thread": {
    "id": 5744,
    "subject": "Emerald Bench",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2010-09-19T17:54:38+00:00",
    "last": "2010-09-20T11:15:19+00:00"
  },
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    {
      "message_id": "<AANLkTi=yXsYn3SNXEfqYQxUBbr8NKMsj152Nd+8_MV=A@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-09-19T17:54:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Emerald Bench",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he\nfinds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald\nbench'.  Does anyone have any idea what this might be?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<4C9661AC.90104@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-09-19T19:17:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Emerald Bench",
      "in_reply_to": "<AANLkTi=yXsYn3SNXEfqYQxUBbr8NKMsj152Nd+8_MV=A@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:\nAt the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he\nfinds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald\nbench'.  Does anyone have any idea what this might be?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon \nwhich is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula \nfor gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and \nmandragoras, etc.\n\n\thttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\nComputational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana\n< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<SNT123-W6102255EDB071940806C13CF7E0@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lee Berman",
        "address": "severiansola at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-09-20T11:15:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Emerald Bench",
      "in_reply_to": "<4C9661AC.90104@io.com>",
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson: Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon \nwhich is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula for gold, the \nPhilosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and mandragoras, etc."
        },
        {
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          "text": "Okay! good work you guys."
        },
        {
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          "text": "Wikipedia- The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The \nSecret of Hermes, is a text purporting to reveal the secret of the primordial substance and \nits transmutations. It claims to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus (\"Hermes the Thrice-\nGreatest\"), a legendary Hellenistic[1] combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian \ngod Thoth."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": " \nI like the part about sometimes baboon-headed Thoth. \t\t \t   \t\t  "
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