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  "thread": {
    "id": 161,
    "subject": "Nessus",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-03-13T17:34:11+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-13T17:34:11+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0229@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-13T17:34:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Nessus",
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          "text": "At 07:57 PM 3/13/97 +0000, Joshua Solomon wrote about Nessus.\n\n\tNessus is Buenos Aires. Say \"Nos Aires\" fast ten times. Location is part\nof the evidence, but so is the fact that Blind Ultan is the famous blind\nlibrarian of Buenos Aires, Horky-Borky (Jorge Borges), known for his\nlabyrinth fiction, tying in to the labyrinthian library, etc.\n\tBut this is about 100 million years in the future (in a previous\noscillation of the universe). The mountains Severian climbs are not the\nAndes, because he sees layers of cities and human civilization in them as\nhe climbs. Thus, these mountains were uplifted in historic time, but in a\nfuture far from us -- or rather, from the equivalent of us.\n\tThis being the case, surely the rivers are also different. We might find a\nriver that is the same as the Gyoll, but I would not look for one. Nor does\nNessus have to be located where Buenos Aires is today, given 100 million\nyears of geological changes. \n\nJBJordan\n\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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