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  "thread": {
    "id": 959,
    "subject": "Atria I Have Known and Loved",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-07-11T13:53:18+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-11T13:53:18+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0051@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ifh.de"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-11T13:53:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Atria I Have Known and Loved",
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          "text": "This is the quotation I was scrabbling for before.\n\n  The old orchard and the herb garden beyond it had been so silent, so\n  freighted with oblivion, that they recalled to me the Atrium of Time,\n  and Valeria with her exquisite face warmed in furs.\n\n    Claw, chapter XXIII, opening words\n\nApart from the first reaction `Not thinking about women *again*?',\nthis shows just the associations I was trying to suggest for the\nAtrium.  The Atrium doesn't *travel* in time, which implies darting\nback and forth, materialising in 1970s Britain to defeat the Sea\nDevils, materialising in 19th Century Britain to defeat horrible\nthings in the sewers, materialising in 1980s... well, you get the\npicture.  It remains fixed in time, unmoving (remember the carved\nanimals?), while all else travels forward.  Of course, we know it has\nseasons, but that's just the stuff it's fixed with respect to.\n(It's OK, I don't understand that either.)\n\nWolfe probably means `atrium' to have something like the classical\nmeaning (is there a Peristylium of Time?), but the word, in modern\nparlance, means something like a big reception area, not unlike a\nWolfean Antechamber, where you wait and wait and nothing happens.\n\ncorncrake"
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