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  "thread": {
    "id": 1431,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v012.n134",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-06-04T14:05:07+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-04T14:05:07+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0799@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jerry Friedman",
        "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-04T14:05:07+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v012.n134",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "... "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Michael Andre-Driussi\n<mantis at siriusfiction.com>\nSubject: Re: (whorl) Cilinia's mausoleum"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Jerry Friedman wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "(Chap. 19, a mausoleum [apparently not Severian's\nhideout] in the necropolis"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Ah, this has been established (or otherwise\nachieved consensual validity in\nexcess of 51%)?  I hadn't known, I must have missed\nthat . . . it poses a\nleap I cannot follow."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Nevermind.  I withdraw the statement/question."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And here I brought the books in to work (I'm just\npart-time) to post the relevant quotes!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "OTOH, it does lead to an interesting notion: what\nif, instead of a FAQ\nabout a book/series/story, what if there was a\nposition tabulation, sort of\nlike a voting ballet, showing broad points\n(\"Participants like the piece\"\nxx%; \"Respondents dislike the piece\" xx%), then\nmedium points, down to fine\ndetail points?\n\nIt would be a digested digest, I suppose.  A\ntallying person would read\nthrough the thread, picking out the various points\nof concensus and\ncontention, then use these to create the ballot. \nRather like making an\nindex, in a way.  The ballot could then be voted on\nafresh, or the\npercentages could just be filled in based on how the\ndiscussion seemed to\ngo in the original.\n\nAt the end of this there would be these handly\nlittle one-page summaries of\nwhere everybody has been and which sides they were\non.  Like a busload of\ntourists posing for a snapshot.\n\nThat would be something!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I'd certainly be interested in this, though it would\nbe a big project."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Kevin J. Maroney\" <kmaroney at ungames.com>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Ahah! The Wolfe Seminar! We could all get pink, red,\ngrey, and black balls\nand vote on whether Severian is his own mother...."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Thanks to you, I now have learned a little about the\nJesus Seminar.  But come on!  Everybody knows that\nSeverian's mother, after walking the corridors of\ntime, played holy Katherine at the torturers' feast!\nHa ha only kidding."
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          "text": "Jerry Friedman"
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