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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 565,
    "subject": "fusion and english",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1998-11-01T21:14:28+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-02T11:55:06+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0024@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Greg Neyman",
        "address": "greg.neyman at gte.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-01T21:14:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) fusion and english",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Hey everyone ...\n    Prion- how the heck can a chem get all its hydrogen needs from AIR?  ...\nit can't be more than a few tenths of a percent in the air (to maintain the\necosphere ... or ecocylinder, as it were, the air composition couldn't\ndeviate too significantly from earth's) ...\n\nand it looks like this English problem has been put pretty much to rest.\nthanks for all your input, you guys (man I hate to be cowed ... )\n\nlast call ... any ideas on how the whorl powers itself?\n\nA New Question:  In Calde, Quetzal mentions that he's done his all he could\nto ensure that theophanies stop occurring in Viron ... I never really\nunderstood why ... does it get explained elsewhere in an oblique manner ...\nor not at all?\n\nLater ...\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-v0009-0029@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-02T08:49:42+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) fusion and english",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0024@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Greg Neyman wrote:\nHey everyone ...\n    Prion- how the heck can a chem get all its hydrogen needs from AIR?  ...\nit can't be more than a few tenths of a percent in the air (to maintain the\necosphere ... or ecocylinder, as it were, the air composition couldn't\ndeviate too significantly from earth's) ..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The classic SF trope is getting hydrogen from electrolysis of water, so I\nimagine Prion is refering to water vapor in the air.\n\n\"Humid weather today.  Yum!\" -- Hammerstone\n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0030@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-02T11:55:06+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) fusion and english",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0029@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Greg Neyman wrote:\nA New Question:  In Calde, Quetzal mentions that he's done his all he could\nto ensure that theophanies stop occurring in Viron ... I never really\nunderstood why ... does it get explained elsewhere in an oblique manner ...\nor not at all?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "For my money, not at all, and Quetzal's motivations as the (maybe) benevolent\nvampire will presumably be explained in Short Sun...  Didn't Wolfe say as much\nin the Q&A session some time ago?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
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          "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.\" - John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu)\nSenior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction)\n'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President\n608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366\nhttp://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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