{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5745",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
  },
  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 5745,
    "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 73, Issue 34",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2010-09-19T22:38:30+00:00",
    "last": "2010-09-20T06:27:45+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<AANLkTinLKrpohkwhJw55dnp0VbVOSo6e=2DQxt6nn_L+@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-09-19T22:38:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 73, Issue 34",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Jeff Wilson wrote:\nOn 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "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”"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "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? ? ? ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Interesting - and it's about the power of the sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<4C96FEE1.2010803@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-09-20T06:27:45+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 73, Issue 34",
      "in_reply_to": "<AANLkTinLKrpohkwhJw55dnp0VbVOSo6e=2DQxt6nn_L+@mail.gmail.com>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 9/19/2010 5:38 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:\nJeff Wilson wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "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?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "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        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Interesting - and it's about the power of the sun."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The sun references are intriguing, implying yet another time-loop, or \nperhaps that an autarch of the distant pre-Typhonian succession somehow \nknew something of what was to come."
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\nComputational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana\n< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}