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  "thread": {
    "id": 576,
    "subject": "Black Mechanics, Golems & Chems, oh my!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-11-04T21:23:40+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-04T21:23:40+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0047@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Derek Bell",
        "address": "dbell at maths.tcd.ie"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-04T21:23:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Black Mechanics, Golems & Chems, oh my!",
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          "text": "\tIt's just struck me that there may be a possibility of a\ngolem-like legend on the Whorl. One version of the legend of the golem\ntells of an incident where the golem is told to fill a bath, but not\nto stop when it's full enough, with the result that the golem went into an\ninfinite loop, constantly filling the bath. Now I wonder if a chem\never went into such a loop on the Whorl, either through accident or\ndeliberate sabotage. Hmmm... Gene Wolfe could make a whole novel out\nof that!\n\n\tDerek\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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