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  "thread": {
    "id": 718,
    "subject": "\"Once Upon a Midnight Weary...\"",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-02T13:51:16+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-02T13:51:16+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0012-0058@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at coredcs.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-02T13:51:16+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Once Upon a Midnight Weary...\"",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Somewhat earlier the more than astute mantis, amaneunsis to M. Vladimir,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "wrote:\nThen there is the Edgar Allen Poe sequence: the officer is distracted\nby a one-eyed black cat; then by a mysterious black bird that flies\nin and perches on the picture frame--one almost expects the bird to\ncroak, \"Nevermore.\"  Both creatures in Poe's work signal missing\nwomen: the first a murdered wife, the second a wife lost to disease.\nRegardless of that, animal messengers are a part of the abo world\nrather than that of the colonist."
        },
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          "text": "The cat is lifted nearly wholecloth from \"The Black Cat,\" from monocularity\nto its name, Pluto. As the officer tells us he's a *graveyard* cat.\n\nAlso a semi-autobiographical note, since Gene Wolfe attended a school named\nafter Eddy Poe. \n\nRe the IGene colors: Green: Victor's mother; Lucius Shepherd.\n\nta-tap-tap\n\nYOU STILL THERE NINETY-NINE?\n\nI SEE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE CAVE.\n\nFAITEZ ATTENTION... ROY'S HANDS? HIS ABONESS?\n\nRECORDS DESTROYED IN WAR, N'EST-CE PAS?\n\nSTART THINKING FROGTOWN.\n\nPOSSIBLE SIDETRIP BLOUNT.\n\nPOSSIBLE CLUTISH TIE-IN/STANDALONE: TANTE'S GIRLS.\n\ntaptap-taptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptap-taptap\n\n\"...Suddenly I heard a tapping.\"\n\nNEVERMORE"
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