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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/295",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 295,
    "subject": "My Question",
    "messages": 5,
    "voices": 5,
    "first": "1997-05-16T08:22:54+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-26T15:37:05+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0284@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Wesley Parsons (7065)",
        "address": "wrp at adorno.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-16T08:22:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) My Question",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I've been reading the posts every day, but have only contributed a few\nthoughts myself.  I do have a question for Mr. Wolfe.  It's oblique and may\nbe inapposite.  But, for what it's worth,\n\nIs there a member (current, former, or future) of the Order of Seekers for\nTruth and Penitence on the Whorl; if so, who?\n\nWes"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0289@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-16T16:42:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) My question",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0005-0284@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"Describe in detail a voided cross and a gammadion\""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0395@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-25T18:45:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) My question",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0005-0289@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Um, mantis, didn't you get my email? I'd like my question to be:\n\nWhy did Auk/Tartaros kidnap Hyacinth, and why, subsequently, did he let her\ngo?\n\nCan't the Pike's ghost question be from all of us?\n\n-a plaintive alga-"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0400@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-26T01:27:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) My question",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0006-0395@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Reply:  Item #0457038 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03#\n\nalga,\n\nAh, my mistake--which is why I will henceforth stick to my guns and\nnot allow =any= first train questioneers until the mad dash in real time\nat the last second as determined by myself and my whim.\n\nWhat the hey--it is Wednesday already.  And I wanna send it out on\nFriday morning.  Okay, we'll throw open the cattle car doors for\nThursday, 26 Jun 1997, GMT.  And the first one at 00:02:42 is alga,\nwith her question re: what she just said.\n\nOKAY everybody, only eight (8) more seats left on this train!  And\nonly 23 odd hours left to fill 'em!\n\n=mantis=\n\nP.S. I guess this means Wesley Parsons might not make it in time, re:\nhis automated reply to alga's message."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0474@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Cleary",
        "address": "kcleary at tinet.ie"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-26T15:37:05+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) My question -Reply",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0006-0400@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Dear Wesley Parsons:\n\nI'm a subscriber to the whorl mailing list, and received the following\nmessage about 70 times today.\n\n\n\n----------"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: WESLEY PARSONS <WRP at adorno.com>\nTo: whorl at lists.best.com\nSubject: (whorl) My question -Reply\nDate: Thursday, June 26, 1997 1:00 AM\n\n\n[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long\nSun]\n\nI'm out of the office today.  Please call my secretary, Ginger Brown, at\n7066, or leave me a voicemail message at X 7065.\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
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