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  "thread": {
    "id": 851,
    "subject": "John V Marsch, superspy",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-23T08:26:27+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-23T08:26:27+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0014-0081@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-23T08:26:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) John V Marsch, superspy",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Sgt Rock wrote:\n...It seems to me that in 5th Head, _everything_ is\npossible, and here one obvious possibility has been overlooked: Marsch\nis, precisely as his Kafkaesque captors insist, a spy and assassin."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "  <snip>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "In fact, Marsch has a double cover story: first, that he is an\nanthropologist from earth. This primary cover is the one he used when\nmoving about Port-Mimizon. He activated his secondary cover when he was\narrested: hoping to take advantage of the Sainte Croix natives'\nignorance of \"abos\", he began to pretend that he was an abo trying to\npass as an anthropologist from Earth."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "What can \"Marsch\" possibly gain by pretending to belong to a native race\neveryone thinks died out a century ago? In our terms, it would be like O\nJ Simpson trying to fool the jury by dropping subtle hints that he was\nin fact jamming with Elvis at the time of the murder."
        }
      ]
    }
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