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  "thread": {
    "id": 235,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v001.n068",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-03-24T00:17:20+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-24T00:17:20+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0270@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-24T00:17:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v001.n068",
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          "text": "   This doesn't persuade me.  Holy Katharine is not the patron of Nessus,\nonly of the torturers.  St. Catherine (of the St. Catherine's wheel fame)\nwas martyred (IIRC) on a burning wheel.  If anything, this is an allusion\nto the fact that the towers are themselves rockets.  The library\nreference\nis too broad: are ALL libraries in fiction automatically the Great\nLibrary\nof Alexandria?"
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Not at all. It's only a way of looking at things, and it only works if you\nthink that Wolfe drops deliberate, somewhat cryptic clues as to geography.\nIt's part of a scheme that I honestly don't have time to post right now as\nI'm on a couple of deadlines. But I will. And you probably won't like it!\n\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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