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  "thread": {
    "id": 882,
    "subject": "fluff and nonsense",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-07-01T22:33:51+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-02T09:31:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0056@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Freestone",
        "address": "matthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-01T22:33:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) fluff and nonsense",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Dan Rabin:\nWe have recently been discussing whether the identity of Severian, the New\nSun, and the Conciliator is deducible from _The Book of the New Sun_."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "``I, knowing no prayers, spoke without sound to someone who seemed at times\nwithin me and at times, as the angel had said, infinitely remote.''"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Michael Straight:\nI don't think this bit says much about Severian's identity.  It sounds to\nme like the way many people might describe their experience of prayer, but\nfew if any would mean by it that they are themselves Jesus.  It seems to\nme more an expression of the paradox of God's immanence and transcendence."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Or, as someone (Russell?) once put it, \"I know that I am God, because\nwhenever I try to pray, I find I'm talking to myself.\"\n--                              II         |\\      _,,,---,,_\nMatt Freestone                  II    zzz. /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_.\nmatthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk    II        |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\\ (  `'-'\nwww.matthewf.demon.co.uk/       II       '---''(_/--'  `-'\\_)"
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0065@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Joshua A. Solomon",
        "address": "j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-02T09:31:00+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) fluff and nonsense",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0015-0056@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Matthew Freestone wrote:\n\nOr, as someone (Russell?) once put it, \"I know that I am God, because\nwhenever I try to pray, I find I'm talking to myself.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Peter O'Toole in \"The Ruling Class.\"\n\nbee"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Joshua A. Solomon\nThe Institute of Ophthalmology\n11 - 43 Bath Street\nLondon EC1V 9EL\nVoice: (44) 171 608 6924\nFax: (44) 171 608 6846\nj.solomon at ucl.ac.uk\nhttp://vision.arc.nasa.gov/personnel/jsolomon"
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