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  "thread": {
    "id": 167,
    "subject": "Miscellaneous notes, take one",
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    "first": "1997-04-06T23:27:03+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-06T23:27:03+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0005@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gary Ellwood",
        "address": "gellwood at mindlink.bc.ca"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-06T23:27:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Miscellaneous notes, take one",
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          "text": "\tA long time ago (in a galaxy far, far better thing I do than George Lucas\nhas ever done before) someone was asking about the origin of the minor\ncharacter name \"Feist.\"  I think in the context of Vironese names the\nfollowing definition is preferable:  feist; \"a small, snappish dog\"\n(Webster's New World Dictionary).\n\tTalon was asking about \"THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN.  Severian wrote two\ncopies of his account. One was placed into a sealed leaden container and\nset adrift from Tzadkiel's ship as it plied time and space. Presumedly this\nis the copy Wolfe obtained. (I forget the fate of the other copy. Any\ntakers?)\"  To be accurate, Severian only wrote one copy (that we know of)\nof TUOTNS.  However, he wrote the first \"edition\" of The Book of the New\nSun shortly before leaving Urth, then copied it from his perfect memory on\nboard the ship before casting that copy adrift.  (See the final chapter of\nThe Citadel of the Autarch for confirmation.)  The first manuscript was\nsent to Master Ultan, and is thus presumably underwater, drowned with\nNessus.  (But who knows?  There may well be book collectors avid enough to\nwalk the Corridors of Time in search of the first Urthly edition....)\n\n**************************************************\nThis has been another quality e-mail from:\n      Gary (gellwood at mindlink.bc.ca)\nPlease send him chocolate to properly and\ncompletely express your eternal gratitude.\n**************************************************\n\nThe quote of the week comes from Ray Hyman:  \n\n\"One thing about humans is we're experts at finding meaning.  \nBut we pay a big price.  We also find patterns where there are none.\""
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