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  "thread": {
    "id": 5955,
    "subject": "Grotestad and Grandecitta",
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    "first": "2011-02-08T21:31:26+00:00",
    "last": "2011-02-08T21:31:26+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<AANLkTinOzN=r=ZfZBHsyq6dphgSYApVSh3V-o8gVp8OV@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2011-02-08T21:31:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Grotestad and Grandecitta",
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          "text": "Gerry Quinn wrote:\nGerry Quinn wrote."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Curious... the two whorl city names we do know how to parse both mean 'Big\nCity'."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "There's also Urbs, which I suppose just means 'city'. And 'Viron' might come\nfrom 'environment' (c.f. Brian Aldiss's 'Total Environment').\n\nMethinks Typhon's planners had the imagination typical of bureaucrats..."
        },
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          "text": "Also Gens, 'tribe', and Wick 'settlement' or the like. On the other\nhand, as well as Trivigaunte there is Palustria, 'marshland', and the\noriginal Pajarocu. Perhaps other gods chose those names - presumably\nSphigx did for Trivigaunte."
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