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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/401",
    "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": 401,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v007.n004",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-07-13T15:16:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-07-13T15:16:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0007-0518@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Langford",
        "address": "ansible at cix.compulink.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1997-07-13T15:16:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v007.n004",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In-Reply-To: <199707130650.XAA15095 at lists1.best.com>\n\nAlice Turner:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "But...Pike's ghost? Aaaargh! He never answered the artful codicil...who \nor what is it?\nThis is a true mystery."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Part of my own tooth-gnashing over this resulted from the fact that the \nghost or \"ghost\" might just still be one of the inhumi. Wolfe has merely \ntold us that it wasn't Quetzal! (And, earlier on, confirmed that Quetzal \nwasn't the only one aboard the Whorl.) Ah, the blinding light of \nhindsight.\n\nThe answer that gave me most relief was the bit about the =accidental= \nMint/Marble mixup. That one was hurting my brain.\n\nMantis:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Now I know you didn't mean to suggest that there was a \"dumb\nquestion\" on the list, but I'm going to defend it as if you actually\nsaid it."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Thanks for putting it like that. I'm conscious of having privately \nformulated many, many dumb questions about BotNS and BotLS....\n\nDave\n\nDavid Langford\nansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/"
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