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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1048,
    "subject": "Drollery",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-11-28T20:45:42+00:00",
    "last": "2000-11-28T20:45:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0038@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "akt",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-11-28T20:45:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Drollery",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "From Wombat:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I currently have a cold, possibly with a minor fever, and my troubled\ndreams kept trying to convince me that there are coded messages in\n_The\nBook of the Short Sun_ which will reveal who will, in the long run,\nwin the\n2000 presidential election.\n\nAlas, I can't remember any of the codes, but I did come away with one\nkey\ninsight: Bush is a plant, and Gore is an animal byproduct. So is this\na\nbattle of the sexes?"
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        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": " And Blattid:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Alga emerged from her pond and asked:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "What does \"blattid\" mean? It's not in the OED."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "One of the Blattidaea, of course. Or, as my dear old\ngrammaw would say, \"One of dem cock-a-roaches.\"\n\n--Blattid\nBlatt! Blatt!"
        },
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I should emerge more often. I'm chuckling.\n\n-alga\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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