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  "thread": {
    "id": 1017,
    "subject": "An O, Wow moment",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-09-06T23:37:20+00:00",
    "last": "2000-09-07T00:02:47+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0244@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "akt",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-09-06T23:37:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) An O, Wow moment",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Dan Schmidt asked re Seawrack:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Is this a common word?  It appears to be a synonym for seaweed, but I\ndon't remember encountering it before.  I ask because I'm currently\nreading through ULYSSES and found it at the beginning of chapter 3:\n\n  Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more,\n  thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read,\n  seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "So I looked in the OED and here is the earliest citation pasted in,\nverbatim:\n\n1551 Turner Herbal i. K iv, Alga..is commonly called in englyshe see\nwrak.\n\nO, Wow,\n-alga\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0245@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-09-07T00:02:47+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) An O, Wow moment",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0011-0244@digest.urth.net>",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 11:37 PM -0400 9/6/00, akt at attglobal.net wrote:\n\nDan Schmidt asked re Seawrack:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": " Is this a common word?  It appears to be a synonym for seaweed, but I\n don't remember encountering it before.  I ask because I'm currently\n reading through ULYSSES and found it at the beginning of chapter 3:\n\n   Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more,\n   thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read,\n   seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "So I looked in the OED and here is the earliest citation pasted in,\nverbatim:\n\n1551 Turner Herbal i. K iv, Alga..is commonly called in englyshe see\nwrak.\n\nO, Wow,\n-alga"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Wow, indeed! If you come across a hus, and it offers to shake your \nhand, *don't do it*. <g>"
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "William Ansley\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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