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  "thread": {
    "id": 724,
    "subject": "Cat from Capital City",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-02T22:28:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-02T22:28:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0012-0065@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-02T22:28:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cat from Capital City",
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          "text": "Robert,\n\nVienne is the capital of Sainte Croix, right?  And how far away from\nPort-Mimizon--more than a stone's throw, don't you sense?  So how\nextra weird for the junior officer to think, \"Ah, that cemetary cat\nfrom capital city . . . let's see if I can plug him with my trusty\npea-shooter.\"\n\nWhat's this, \"The Incredible Journey\"?  One half-blind cat walks\nacross the continent (or maybe just thirty miles) seeking revenge . .\n. he's pissed because Pluto is a dog name . . . oh yeah, happens all\nthe time here in the hallowe'en country says officer abo griffith.\n\nWish little Johnny had gotten his gun out, so we could see how good\nhe can shoot.  \"Here's a shovel--let's see you dig a hole.\"\n\nIn the words of the Sid, \"That cat something I can't explain.\"\n\nRe: Saint-Dizier, do we have any sense of where it is located with\nrelation to the other cities of Sainte Anne?  If the records were\nthere, does that mean it was the old capital?  Is Frenchman's Landing\nthe current capital (this might explain the heightened expectations\nof the citizens for their city, expectations never made good)?\n\nHey!  Marsch being circumcised (if he is) might translate into\nEastwind's condition of being castrated at birth in the confessional\nfantasy \"A Story.\"\n\nConstellation update:\n\nProvisionally let's say . . .\n\nPOLE STAR\nEye of Cold        -- unknown.  Could be Aldabaran (eye of the Bull),\n                      but not with the zodiac below because it is\n                      right next to the Hyades.  Maybe one of the\n                      eyes of Draco, that might work.\n\nLOCAL ZODIAC (incomplete)\nFive Flowers       -- the Hyades (we count six, Hesiod counted five)\nSeeing Seed        -- unknown\nValley of Milk     -- Milky Way\nLost Wishes        -- unknown\nBurning Hair Woman -- Coma Berenices\n\nBy thus provisionally divining three points, we can start sketching\nlines to connect 'em and see what we get.  Or not.\n\n=mantis="
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