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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/554",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 554,
    "subject": "hello?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-10-25T23:31:15+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-26T09:13:43+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0004@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Greg Neyman",
        "address": "greg.neyman at gte.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-25T23:31:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) hello?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "howdy, I just subscribed ...\n\nI've looked at the archives ... there seems to be some sort of lull ...\n(ahem) ...\n\nI've glimpsed the archives, but haven't really read them all ... and I do\nhave some questions ... if these questions were answered, I'm duly sorry ...\n\nwhen Silk traces circles on his cheek ... what does that mean ... it was a\nhabit he seemed to pick up suddenly in Calde ... is it just an \"I'm\nthinking\" idiosyncrasy ...\n\ncould P. Pike's ghost be some sort of projection from his \"stored\" copy at\nMainFrame, activated by Kypris, or something like that? ... for what purpose\n... beats me ...\n\n\n    /\\/\\     Greg Neyman               Greg.Neyman at gte.net\n___/____\\___ http://www.trailerpark.com/siesta/thehat/\n  |HE  HA|\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0005@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-26T09:13:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) hello?",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0004@digest.urth.net>",
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      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 23:31 1998-10-25 -0800, Greg Neyman wrote:\nhowdy, I just subscribed ...\n\nI've looked at the archives ... there seems to be some sort of lull ...\n(ahem) ...\n\nI've glimpsed the archives, but haven't really read them all ... and I do\nhave some questions ... if these questions were answered, I'm duly sorry ...\n\nwhen Silk traces circles on his cheek ... what does that mean ... it was a\nhabit he seemed to pick up suddenly in Calde ... is it just an \"I'm\nthinking\" idiosyncrasy ...\n\ncould P. Pike's ghost be some sort of projection from his \"stored\" copy at\nMainFrame, activated by Kypris, or something like that? ... for what purpose\n... beats me ..."
        },
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          "text": "For my money, Pike's ghost is the ghost of Pike.  I think he's hanging around\nfor the traditional reason: unfinished business in this world. It seems to be\nconnected with Mucor; his first appearance is just after Silk has seen Mucor,\nIIRC, and only Mucor sees him the second time. There's a connection between\nthem, of course, which is in the archives but you may not have seen it yet.\nOr you may have found it yourself, of course.\n\nPeter.\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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    }
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