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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/676",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 676,
    "subject": "Throne, Dickens, Mom",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-28T00:14:25+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-28T00:14:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0012-0012@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-28T00:14:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Throne, Dickens, Mom",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Matt:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The bowling ball is described as being sat on a chair of massy\ngold, and there's a reference at the end to a queue (pun?) of customers,\nbut that's about your lot."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "When GW agrees to be GoH at a convention, I'm sure he *insists* on a chair\nof massy gold <g>.\n\nMark:\n\nThanks for reminding me of The Quincunx, a book I've had it in the back of\nmy mind to read for some time. You might like Peter Carey's newest book,\nJack Maggs, also Dickensian (Jack is the original for Magwich, and quite a\ncomplex character, not as benign as old Magwich). It should be out in paper\nreasonably soon if you can't find it at the library. And I'll take a crack\nat Dead Can Dance!\n\n\nTony:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Now have a crack at my theory, Robert. I say that we meet - well, almost\nmeet - VRT's mother. She's the prisoner in the next cell."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "FWIW, I too have had this thought, fleetingly.\n\n-alga-"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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