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  "thread": {
    "id": 601,
    "subject": "Old Now Is Urth, and None May Count Her Days",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-12T14:26:15+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-12T14:26:15+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0001@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Charles Dye",
        "address": "raster at highfiber.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-12T14:26:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Old Now Is Urth, and None May Count Her Days",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Dan'l Danehy Oakes\" <DDANEHYO at us.oracle.com>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "And finally the \"newer\" mountain ranges are recognisable as\nsuch because they are sharp and rugged - in contrast to the\n'old' mountain that have all be carved into the likeness of\npast Autarchs (rather than being softened from weathering). "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Those are monarchs (or emperors), not Autarchs (Severian only\nthinks so as he sees them because he does not know their\nhistory)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "They're Autarchs.  Urth, chapter 38:\n\n\"All around us ragged, faceless peaks loomed through pent clouds.\nWe were among mountains, but mountains that had not yet put on\nthe carven likenesses of men and women -- such unshaped mountains,\nthen, as are to be seen in the oldest pictures.\"\n\nTyphon appears to have started this charming little fad.  It's\ncertainly consistent with his colossal (Satanic?) ego.  Also note\nthe unstated implication that such mountains are not to be found\n*outside* of old pictures ...."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Did Typhon start the fashion, or was he mearly the aprotheosis\nof it?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Since he appears to have been the last of the monarchs, I'd say\nhe was its apotheosis.  After him, came Ymir the Almost Just,\nfirst Autarch."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Given his background, and his role model as First Autarch, it's\nastonishing that Ymar came within an \"Almost\" of Just!\n\nraster at highfiber.com"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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