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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/936",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 936,
    "subject": "Urth/Ushas/White Fountain",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-08T11:28:43+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-08T11:28:43+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0012@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Cleary",
        "address": "kierannwn at tinet.ie"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-08T11:28:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth)  Urth/Ushas/White Fountain",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Rostrum:\n\nThe first mention of Ushas is (if I recall correctly) in Dr. Talos' play,\nwhere one of the characters asserts that the new sun will cause the old\ncontinents to rise with their lost minerals and riches and a new race of\nmonsters to appear. This Urth will then be called Ushas. [a long time ago in\na list far away, I speculated that these monsters were inhumu and that\nUshas/Lune = Blue/Green, the generation starship returns home to an alien\nworld. *sigh*. Would that it were so]\n\nAdam:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Since the New Sun's coming will kill nearly all of Urth's current\npopulation, the Hierogrammates feel themselves morally obligated to get\nthe permission of a representative of Urth before sending it."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I think there is something to that. But more importantly, there's also the\nwhole issue of the Hierogrammates trying to ensure the appearance of their\ncognates, those beings which once did or will eventually give rise to the\nhierogrammates. Severian is referred to as the apotheosis of humanity.\nHumanity is being judged as to whether it is likely they could be the\ncreators of the heirogrammates. If so, they will be forged between hammer\nand anvil of New Sun and Ushas.\n\nKieran C.\n\n\n\nNorth West Labs\nFinisklin Industrial Estate\nSligo\nRepublic of Ireland\n\nTel. +353 71 69441\nFax. +353 71 69451\nemail: kierannwn at tinet.ie"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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