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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/471",
    "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": 471,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v008.n042",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 4,
    "first": "1998-05-15T08:37:58+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-15T14:03:55+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0628@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-15T08:37:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v008.n042",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Oh my.  \"Two-headed **pho*\"!  I love it!  Someone really needs to confront\nWolfe with that one."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Huh? Can one of you explain?\n\n-out-of-it alga-"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0629@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-15T08:53:26+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v008.n042",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0008-0628@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "On Fri, 15 May 1998, Alice Turner wrote:\nOh my.  \"Two-headed **pho*\"!  I love it!  Someone really needs to confront\nWolfe with that one."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Huh? Can one of you explain?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Two-headed Zaphod (Beeblebrox), President of the entire Galaxy\n(Universe?), but really just figure-heads for the dark and mysterious\nactual rulers (is Typhon really a pawn of the Undines?).  From Douglas\nAdams' _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ books.\n\nAnd...in a spoiler for HHGTG...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZaphod discovers that someone has messed with his brain to make him do\nstuff he normally wouldn't and later discovers that someone was himself,\nrewiring his own brains so he could become President without his real\nmotives being discovered.  It's not quite one head betraying the other,\nbut... \n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0631@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-15T11:57:44+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v008.n042",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0008-0629@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 08:37 1998-05-15 -0400, Alice Turner wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Oh my.  \"Two-headed **pho*\"!  I love it!  Someone really needs to confront\nWolfe with that one."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Huh? Can one of you explain?\n\n-out-of-it alga-"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ty-pho-n or Za-pho-d Beeblebrox. Zaphod's starship \"Heart of Gold\" in the\nHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a ship's computer called Eddy.\n\nOf course, Typhon didn't start out in a starship in tBotNS, and I don't\nknow whether tBotNS or HHGG was published first. The _Whorl_ is long\nafter Eddy the computer, of course.\n\n -- Spectacled bear.\n\nPeter Westlake, Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambs CB2 5RG."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0634@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Mullen",
        "address": "kieran at phyast.nhn.ou.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-15T14:03:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re:  Digest whorl.v008.n042",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0008-0631@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Peter Westlake <peter at harlequin.co.uk>\nSubject: Name of the _Whorl_\nDate: Thu, 14 May 1998 12:26:17 +0100\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"\n\nIs there any special reason for the _Whorl_'s name?\nIt doesn't seem like an obvious choice for a hollowed-out\nasteroid."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "    I thought there were at least two reasons:\n\n(1)  The resonance with the word \"world\".  Wolfe likes wordplay.\n\n(2)  If you are living on the surface of a cylinder and look down it,\n     far away it will look like a whirlpool (I think).  Does anyone\n     know what the aspect ratio of the Whorl is?   \n\n               Kieran Mullen"
        }
      ]
    }
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