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  "thread": {
    "id": 551,
    "subject": "Names, animals and meanings (P2)",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-09-07T06:21:52+00:00",
    "last": "1998-09-07T13:35:40+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0738@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-09-07T06:21:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals and meanings (P2)",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nPike.  A long thin carnivorous fish (Esox lucius), also called the\nnorthern pike.  Also, any species in family Esocidae that resembles\nthe pike.  Also the name for a variety of weapons like the spear.\nAlso, the Latin word lupus can mean either wolf or pike.  Old augur on\nSun Street.  Blood's father.  Dead.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0739@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alastair Reynolds",
        "address": "areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl"
      },
      "date": "1998-09-07T13:35:40+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Names, animals and meanings (P2)",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0008-0738@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nPike.  A long thin carnivorous fish (Esox lucius), also called the\nnorthern pike.  Also, any species in family Esocidae that resembles\nthe pike.  Also the name for a variety of weapons like the spear.\nAlso, the Latin word lupus can mean either wolf or pike.  Old augur on\nSun Street.  Blood's father.  Dead.\n\nprion"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "permission to speak...\n\nI don't know if this was a phenomenon unique to British readers of the book,\nbut I couldn't read \"Pike\" without thinking of Private Pike from Dad's Army,\nprobably not quite the effect Wolfe intended...(although, as apparently\nGW is a Benny Hill fan, who knows?)\n\nal "
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