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  "thread": {
    "id": 5918,
    "subject": "some mysterious stuff",
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    "first": "2011-01-18T14:49:01+00:00",
    "last": "2011-01-18T14:49:01+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<SNT123-W2E204AD3A264BB3EDC6C9CFF70@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lee Berman",
        "address": "severiansola at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2011-01-18T14:49:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) some mysterious stuff",
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          "text": "Looking up he saw the carved brown face from his mother's closet."
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          "text": " \n \n\"A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made \nfrom leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the \nface and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit. Commonly used as a decorative architectural \nornament, Green Men are frequently found on carvings in churches and other buildings (both \nsecular and ecclesiastical). \"The Green Man\" is also a popular name for English public houses \nand various interpretations of the name appear on inn signs, which sometimes show a full figure \nrather than just the head.\n \nTo the modern observer the earlier (Romanesque and medieval) carvings often have an unnervingly \neerie or numinous quality.[says who?] This is sometimes said[by whom?] to indicate the vitality of \nthe Green Man, who was able to survive as a symbol of pre-Christian traditions despite, and at the \nsame time complementary to, the influence of Christianity: rather than alienate their new converts, \nearly Christian missionaries would often adopt and adapt local gods, sometimes turning them into \nsaints.[5]\"\n \n-Wikipedia\n \nThe connection of the carved Green Man figures to Dionysus and his representations is more or less a \ngiven.\n\n  \t\t \t   \t\t  "
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