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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 563,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v009.n006",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-10-31T20:47:55+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-01T08:24:32+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0018@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Mullen",
        "address": "kieran at phyast.nhn.ou.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-31T20:47:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re:  Digest whorl.v009.n006",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com>\nSubject: Re: Whorl language\nDate: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:04:26 -0500"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "It still worries me that French and Latin are mentioned by name, though.\nIf Wolfe mentioned a historical person by name (say, Neil Armstrong), it\nwould be hard to argue that he really meant someone else, analogous to\nour Neil Armstrong."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "  Of course Neil (or someone like him) *does* appear in TBotNS in\none of Rudesind's paintings. :-)\n\n       Kieran Mullen\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0020@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jack Lyons",
        "address": "revjack at radix.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-01T08:24:32+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Re:  Digest whorl.v009.n006",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0018@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Kieran Mullen wrote:\n\n:>From: Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com>\n:\n:>It still worries me that French and Latin are mentioned by name, though.\n:>If Wolfe mentioned a historical person by name (say, Neil Armstrong), it\n:>would be hard to argue that he really meant someone else, analogous to\n:>our Neil Armstrong.\n:\n:  Of course Neil (or someone like him) *does* appear in TBotNS in\n:one of Rudesind's paintings. :-)\n\nClearly another allusion to the Trinity, with Neil\nrepresenting Christ, Ultan as the Father, and Rudesind as\nthe Holy Spirit. Surprised no one else caught this."
        }
      ]
    }
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