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  "thread": {
    "id": 6031,
    "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 82, Issue 3",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2011-06-02T13:29:50+00:00",
    "last": "2011-06-02T13:29:50+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<BANLkTikkRjBX+EcVFKdwRKGSSDsMjD-GDg@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2011-06-02T13:29:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 82, Issue 3",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": ".James Wynn wrote:\n\nI really think you ar e both misreading this. It's \"enormous darkness\nOVERHEAD blotting the sundrenched fields\". If the darkness is overhead,\nthen it can't blot the sun-drenched fields which --on Urth-- are below.\nI think you guys are thinking of \"blot out\" which is a different\npicture. If it is the shadow of a transport \"blotting the fields\" then\nit can't be overhead. What we are to envision is the blackness of the\nNightside against the \"sun-drenched fields\" of the Dayside."
        },
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          "text": "I'm not sure what you understand by 'blot'. I don't think it's\nimpossible to say that something overhead 'blots' the fields by\ncasting a shadow on them. (Not 'blot out', since they don't become\ncompletely invisible.)"
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "It is not the line of chems that is dirty, nor a transport. It is the\nWhorl itself which has only recently been completed. Marble is a maid\nchem and so sees everything in terms of whether it needs cleaning or not."
        },
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          "text": "I can't read it this way. The line of soldiers, on your reading,  is a\nlong way off, so that it just looks like a speck; Marble says 'It\nlooks so dirty'; and a soldier replies 'Why don't you dust it?' How\ncan he, if he's so far off?\n\nAnd anyway, this doesn't explain the context. Marble sees the\nTrivigaunti airship, and the words 'Why don't you dust it?' arise\nspontaneously in her mind. Gradually, she recovers the whole scene.\nWhy? Because the airship reminds her of another great object she once\nsaw hanging over her in the sky. While we're not told in so many words\nwhat this was, the idea that it was the transport taking her to the\nWhorl seems a very plausible one. That also makes sense of 'Where was\nthis?',a pertinent question if the answer is 'On Urth', less so of it\nis just some location on the Whorl."
        }
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