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  "thread": {
    "id": 106,
    "subject": "Marble Rose Mint",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-02-19T04:17:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-02-19T04:17:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0155@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-19T04:17:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Marble Rose Mint",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #5049313 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET#\n\nRana,\n\n(Distantly related to Peeper, no doubt? <g>)\n\nRe: adding Mint to the Marble Rose.  Start (IV, 313).  Then (IV,\n380).  Still doubtful?  See (II, 208).  Neat, huh?\n\nRe: question or quiz, well I'm quizzing us all, most of the time.\nTrying to tease out a strand of spaghetti and follow where it leads\n(hopefully to a meatball).  (In this particular case it was even more\nof a question than a quiz.)\n\nRe: the smashed door, okay, I like it!  However, there's this problem\nin that it seems like Marble was dreaming that scene . . . the text has\nthe surreal quality we associate in the Long Sun text with dreaming,\nwhere nouns and verbs are veiled metaphors, or unveiling revelations\nof deeper truths, but not concrete objects (door) or physical actions\n(smashing).  So do you mean that Marble was a somnambulist on this occasion?\nDangerous business, sleepwalking robots!\n\nHey!  Which Niven novel was that?  Where the crew set themselves up\nas rulers before thawing out the sleepers.\n\nRe: using the cards for money.  Alga and I tried guessing how long\nthat has been going on.  If it isn't a random factor (as if there is\nany \"coincidence\" in a Wolfe novel!) then it definitely serves the\nanti-landfall alliance.  And once it starts, you get Raiders of the\nLost Shrine style archeological plundering to get the \"money.\"  But\nstill, one wonders what they used for exchange before?  (Actually,\nsince cards break down into bits, which is the play on the old coins\ncalled \"bits,\" they probably had a similar tradition of coin\nsuplanted by paper money or plastic credit.)  Doesn't matter much.\nBut the change would seem to have happened at least a generation or\ntwo ago, since there doesn't seem to be any mention of any other way\nof doing business.\n\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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