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  "thread": {
    "id": 319,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v005.n021",
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    "first": "1997-05-31T14:45:59+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-31T14:45:59+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0314@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Charles Dye",
        "address": "raster at highfiber.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-31T14:45:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v005.n021",
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          "text": "This from Matthew Freestone <matthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk> :"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Infundibularity - a Crowley reference from 'Little, Big' Ch3, 'Call Them\nDoors':\n\"The explanation is that the world inhabited by these beings is not the\nworld we inhabit. It is another world entirely, and it is enclosed\nwithin this one; it is in a sense a universal retreating mirror image of\nthis one, with a peculiar geometry I can only describe as\ninfundibular...the further in you go, the bigger it gets.\""
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "I thought for sure you were making a reference to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  If\n\"Little, Big\" is infundibular, then \"The Book of the New Sun\" must be\nchronosynclastically infundibular!  (\"Infundibular,\" by the by, means\n\"funnel-shaped.\")\n\nraster at highfiber.com"
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