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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 787,
    "subject": "Water Thieves",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-14T21:07:16+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-14T21:07:16+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0013-0057@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Charles Dye",
        "address": "raster at highfiber.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-14T21:07:16+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Water Thieves",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Quoth Mantis:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "You remembered two of the water clock passages I'd forgotten--the one\nI'm vaguely thinking of is the one used to explain how the master of\nthe house's clock manages to stop \"precisely\" at the moment that the\nmaster dies . . . mainly that with all the deathbed activity, none of\nthe slaves fills the water pan for the clock, then when the doctor\nwants to jot down the time of death he looks at the clock, which\nstopped at some arbitrary time, and the doctor uses that time as\nbeing as good as any, and everybody else goes \"whoo\" (and the master's\ndog begins to howl since they've forgotten to feed him as well as\nwater the clock <g>)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "A bit of spooky magic explained in flat commonsense terms."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Can't remember where this one comes from."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Spoken by Thecla.  Which makes the magician conducting Severian's\nanacrisis say \"whoo\" as Sev's in solitary and Thecla's dead.  There's\na simple explanation, of course.  (And Severian continues to come up\nwith simple explanations for the jungle magicks until it's almost too\nlate.)\n\nraster at highfiber.com"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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