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  "thread": {
    "id": 1481,
    "subject": "Severian on Lune?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-01-04T16:25:05+00:00",
    "last": "2002-01-04T21:38:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n180.A@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-01-04T16:25:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Severian on Lune?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Hello there Andy Robertson,\n\nWelcome aboard!  Thank you for getting permission to post the essay on your\nwebsite, and for posting the essay.  (And for telling us about it!)  It\nseems to have happened so quickly--do you work for \"Interzone\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Thursday you wrote:\nI am sure that if we knew the story of Severian's visit to Lune we would\nunderstand better.  But Wolfe has not written it down yet, so it hasn't\nhappened, so even Wolfe does not know the answer."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Today you touched again on Severian and Lune when you wrote:\nI wish even more that we had seen that visit of Severian to Lune."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I confess I do not know what bit of text in THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN and/or\nURTH OF THE NEW SUN you are referring to here, and I would like to find\nout!  I know about the alluded adventure of Severian's year as an Ascian\nslave, for example, but I do not know of any alluded visit to Lune by\nSeverian.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n181.5@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andy Robertson",
        "address": "andywrobertson at clara.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-01-04T21:38:25+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Severian on Lune?",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n180.A@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "I am sure it has been alluded to by Wolfe.  But where, I cannot say.   And\nnow you challenge me, I fear that  I may have been mistaken.\n\nI am sorry if that is so.  I will continue to look for the reference.\n\nI am one of IZ's assistant editors - have been for 20 years.    Slushpile\nreader, really.   I am just aa fan.  IZ is a shoestring thing, all dags and\ntatters.\n\n\n    Andy Robertson\n\n\n----- Original Message -----"
        },
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Michael Andre-Driussi\" <mantis at siriusfiction.com>\nseems to have happened so quickly--do you work for \"Interzone\"?\n\nOn Thursday you wrote:"
        },
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          "text": "I am sure that if we knew the story of Severian's visit to Lune we would\nunderstand better.  But Wolfe has not written it down yet, so it hasn't\nhappened, so even Wolfe does not know the answer."
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