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  "thread": {
    "id": 902,
    "subject": "Free Live Righteously",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-02T20:17:36+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-02T20:17:36+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0082@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-02T20:17:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Free Live Righteously",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nI have always had the feeling that the wooden plane in Free Live Free\nis the same as the ship Tzadkiel.\n\nWhy?  Well, they both are made of wood (though by the Tzadkiel time\nthe wood would be replaced, and backed by other materials) and are\nflying ships.\n\nBen Free even says near the end of the book that in a few years the\nplane will be permanently located in space, as opposed to flying\nthrough the atmosphere.\n\nIn case you don't remember or haven't read the book, the reason the\nhuge wooden plane was built was for a place where the leaders of\nAmerica would be safe, as it was untrackable by radar.  I wonder how\nit will fair with the powerful optical satellites of the modern age?\n\nOf course, this might just be Wolfe's love for modern stuff made of\nwood, but it just seems too similar to me.  It also seems strange Sev\nsays the wood is there to preserve warmth, but plastics or composite\nwould be much better, to say nothing of whatever has been developed by\nthe Hierogrammates in their eons of existence.\n\nThen again, in The Castle of the Otter Wolfe says that he thinks\nmissiles should be stored in a scattered flotilla of wooden ships\nbecause of their radar-invisibility, so both examples may just be\nideas grown from his affinity for using old things for modern purposes.\n\nprion"
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