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  "thread": {
    "id": 224,
    "subject": "puzzles",
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    "first": "1997-03-19T03:14:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-19T03:14:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0257@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-19T03:14:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) puzzles",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #1349908 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET#\n\nLasrach,\n\nI've been puzzling over the numerals in the Seal of Pas for a few years\nnow and have yet to come to any conclusion, however tenuous.  Even\nnumerology doesn't reveal much.  As you say, it could be an expiration\ndate.  Or it could be an inventory.  Or something in \"chem language\"\nthat says \"Seal of Pas\" or something else entirely.  Do the numbers go\nfrom left to right or from top to bottom?  (When Sand is being\nrepaired, he speaks in two-digit codes . . . )  One big barcode.\n\nXury,\n\nChenille is a plant.  In one of the botany books I've plowed through\nI saw a listing for a Chenille plant, but I'm not sure if it was the\none also known as burning cattail.  There were no pictures.  Wolfe says\nthat the flowers of this burning cattail are raspberry in color.\n\nFWIW, yesterday I finally found scleroderma the puffball.  Yep.\nOn the zoological front I'm still looking for Oosik and Mattak,\nthough.  And Mamelta, presumably botanical, is still a puzzler.\n\nvizcacha,\n\n\"Aye wade leek tow seep they wart are warts Talk sets thud yaw\nthanks ere nut royal warts!\"\n\nEverybody,\n\nAnybody out there got a medieval/renaissance reference book giving\nthe language of plants?  It may be presented in the form of a\nspellbook for sympathetic herbal magic, or something like that.\n\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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