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  "thread": {
    "id": 942,
    "subject": "protocol officer",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-07-09T03:33:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-09T03:33:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0023@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-09T03:33:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) protocol officer",
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          "text": "Matthew Malthouse,\n\nRather than the JFK riff, I shoulda followed my first impulse:\n\n\"Would it be easier to grasp if you considered Sev's ship time and\nYesod high jinks as a sort of Egyptian Book of the Dead?\n\n\"Pharaoh died and went into the heavens.  At the umpteenth gate, the\nguardian asked, `Do you still claim to be Pharaoh?'  And he looked\nwithin himself and saw that, although being Pharaoh was at the core\nof his self-image, his sense of identity, that this too was just a\nmask, a thing of Earth, a role he had played while on Earth.  But now\ndivorced from that stage, apart from that contextual reality, he\ncould see that it wasn't him, no, it was just another mask he had\nconfused himself with.  No greater or lesser than the gilded sandals,\nthe wand and the flail, the double crown--this was just another prop.\nAnother thing to let go of in the purifying process of working\nthrough the afterlife maze . . . \"\n\nThen again, maybe not!  A tangent too far.\n\n=mantis="
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