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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/928",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 928,
    "subject": "Why does Ushas need the White Fountain?",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-07-06T13:54:04+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-07T16:12:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0137@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-06T14:27:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Why does Ushas need the White Fountain?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ok, all this discussion of the black hole/white fountain has made me\nrealize that, although I thought I understood, I still don't get it.\n\nUrth's sun is dying for some reason.  Severian goes to get a White\nFountain, but brings it back to a different universe, to Ushas, whose sun\nis, as far as I know, doing just fine.  How does this action help either\nUrth or Ushas?\n\nI imagine I'm missing something obvious that re-reading Urth or the\narchives might answer, but would someone mind explaining it one more time? \n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0138@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Coleman",
        "address": "marc.coleman at mwcia.org"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-06T13:54:04+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Why does Ushas need the White Fountain?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0015-0137@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ushas is Urth post-White Fountain.  The White Fountain is the new sun of\nthe same universe that Urth was in.  "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 02:27 PM 7/6/98 -0400, you wrote:\n\nOk, all this discussion of the black hole/white fountain has made me\nrealize that, although I thought I understood, I still don't get it.\n\nUrth's sun is dying for some reason.  Severian goes to get a White\nFountain, but brings it back to a different universe, to Ushas, whose sun\nis, as far as I know, doing just fine.  How does this action help either\nUrth or Ushas?\n\nI imagine I'm missing something obvious that re-reading Urth or the\narchives might answer, but would someone mind explaining it one more time? \n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0002@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-07T16:12:25+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Why does Ushas need the White Fountain?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0015-0138@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I asked:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Urth's sun is dying for some reason.  Severian goes to get a White\nFountain, but brings it back to a different universe, to Ushas, whose sun\nis, as far as I know, doing just fine.  How does this action help either\nUrth or Ushas?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Marc Coleman answered:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Ushas is Urth post-White Fountain.  The White Fountain is the new sun of\nthe same universe that Urth was in.  "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "So Ushas and Urth are in the same universe?  Ushas is simply Urth some\nyears later when the newly restored sun has melted the ice?   Somehow I\nthought it was more complicated than that.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0004@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Coleman",
        "address": "marc.coleman at mwcia.org"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-07T15:51:00+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Why does Ushas need the White Fountain?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0016-0002@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "i'm probably right, I think!  just read it again..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 04:12 PM 7/7/98 -0400, you wrote:\n\nI asked:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "Urth's sun is dying for some reason.  Severian goes to get a White\nFountain, but brings it back to a different universe, to Ushas, whose sun\nis, as far as I know, doing just fine.  How does this action help either\nUrth or Ushas?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Marc Coleman answered:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Ushas is Urth post-White Fountain.  The White Fountain is the new sun of\nthe same universe that Urth was in.  "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "So Ushas and Urth are in the same universe?  Ushas is simply Urth some\nyears later when the newly restored sun has melted the ice?   Somehow I\nthought it was more complicated than that.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    }
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