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  "thread": {
    "id": 6661,
    "subject": "moldy bread dream, smell, grain merchant,\n\tAmerican plot in 7an",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2014-09-09T15:54:22+00:00",
    "last": "2014-09-10T02:32:38+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<CAF1072zybqFX=UHnpJbPq4Ly3d=rS-ikwQn8z-He+E_8yd=q-w@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2014-09-09T15:54:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  moldy bread dream, smell, grain merchant,\n\tAmerican plot in 7an",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Tallman's work on seven American nights is almost correct.  America has a\nplot to be great again involving the grain merchant gollem gassem but it\ninvolves air bound spores.  Nadan dreams of moldy bread and wonders why\nAmerica would wish such a thing.   The weapon they will employ is their\nspecialty: drugs.  When the smithsonian guy says smell is true\ncommunication it is hinting at an airborne infectious vector for gollem\ngassem's grain when it is prepared.  This is why Nadan is sure he was\ndrugged on the ship - scent or foreshadowing of America's plot. They are\ngoing to destroy Persia/Iran as they were destroyed.  I don't think it has\nmuch to do with any other weapons cache, as that is not thematically\nstressed in the text.  It is poison, probably via smell, that they posit.\n Perhaps kreton was reaching for the vial they gave Nadan if he wasn't just\ncopping a feel.\n\nGassem!"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<CAEnJbxCadTgOVLVxEzkz9EKVWpAZs7Z00Oep1=wT3CpNmV4TUA@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "aaron",
        "address": "aaronsingleton at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2014-09-10T02:32:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) moldy bread dream, smell, grain merchant,\n\tAmerican plot in 7an",
      "in_reply_to": "<CAF1072zybqFX=UHnpJbPq4Ly3d=rS-ikwQn8z-He+E_8yd=q-w@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Nice. I never could quite figure out Gassem's purpose in the story. But I\nalways knew that Wolfe never has useless characters in his work, so I knew\nhe had some reason for showing him to us. Thanks for this."
        },
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          "text": "On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:\nTallman's work on seven American nights is almost correct.  America has a\nplot to be great again involving the grain merchant gollem gassem but it\ninvolves air bound spores.  Nadan dreams of moldy bread and wonders why\nAmerica would wish such a thing.   The weapon they will employ is their\nspecialty: drugs.  When the smithsonian guy says smell is true\ncommunication it is hinting at an airborne infectious vector for gollem\ngassem's grain when it is prepared.  This is why Nadan is sure he was\ndrugged on the ship - scent or foreshadowing of America's plot. They are\ngoing to destroy Persia/Iran as they were destroyed.  I don't think it has\nmuch to do with any other weapons cache, as that is not thematically\nstressed in the text.  It is poison, probably via smell, that they posit.\n Perhaps kreton was reaching for the vial they gave Nadan if he wasn't just\ncopping a feel.\n\nGassem!\n\n_______________________________________________"
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