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  "thread": {
    "id": 364,
    "subject": "one more for the train",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1997-06-24T08:07:28+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-26T15:36:17+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0385@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Reusch",
        "address": "newsun at freeway.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-24T08:07:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) one more for the train",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Mantis,\n\nIf there's room on the train, I'd like to refine my initial question \nabout Quetzal's motives to:\nWhat was Quetzal's motive in wanting a thriving human colony on Green?\nThanks again for this chance at getting some concrete(?) answers from the \nman himself,\nVance\nP.S. Someone--PLEASE--ask what, specifically, was the ghost of Pike, \nwhich Silk saw in his manse."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0393@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-25T08:38:46+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) one more for the train",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0006-0385@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Reusch wrote:\nIf there's room on the train, I'd like to refine my initial question \nabout Quetzal's motives to:\nWhat was Quetzal's motive in wanting a thriving human colony on Green?\nThanks again for this chance at getting some concrete(?) answers from the \nman himself,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "I'm thinking Wolfe may not want to answer questions that might boil down\nto \"give us some big plot spoilers for the Short Sun series.\" \n\nDo some people feel cheated that what they thought would be a\nself-contained series ends with some loose ends to be tied up in a\nsubsequent series?\n\nI'm having trouble formulating what I'd like to ask Wolfe as a single\nquestion, but here's my try:\n\nThere are scenes in the series that are hard to imagine Horn hearing about\nfrom witnesses (e.g. Musk training the hawk, Quetzal's thoughts and\nactions before and after meeting with Remora, Silk's beautiful prayers to\nthe gods and to the Outsider).  Are these... \n\nA) Extrapolations by Horn (possibly including hagiography of Silk)?\nB) Examples like the very last chapter of Exodus of material in _The Book\n   of the Long Sun_ that is not from _The Book of Silk_?\n\nIf this is too unwieldy (I'm obviously trying to squeeze several questions\ninto one), you might get something interesting just by asking, \"How\ntrustworthy a narrator is Horn?\" or even \"Who is the narrator of the very\nlast chapter of Exodus?\" I'll let you refine the question as you see fit. \n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0477@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-26T15:36:17+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) one more for the train",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0006-0393@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "Ignore previous post on Exodus and Deuteronomy. \n\nNutria\n\n(If you thought it was funny, okay.)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0478@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-26T15:35:22+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) one more for the train",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0006-0477@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "At 08:38 AM 6/25/97 -0400, you wrote:\nB) Examples like the very last chapter of Exodus of material in _The Book\n  of the Long Sun_ that is not from _The Book of Silk_?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "You mean the last chapter of Deuteronomy.\n\nNutria"
        }
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