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  "thread": {
    "id": 705,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v010.n041",
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    "first": "1999-10-31T08:46:00+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-31T08:46:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0142@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Langford",
        "address": "ansible at cix.compulink.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-31T08:46:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n041",
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          "text": "In-Reply-To: <199910302310.QAA19304 at lists1.best.com>\n\nalga propagated:"
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          "text": "Also yesterday there was a report of two women snoozing under a tree in \nHyde Park who were killed by a lightning bolt that stuck their\nunderwire bras.Now what writer, modernist, post-modernist, whatever,\ncould possibly have made that up?"
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          "text": "Vladimir Nabokov came close: \"My very photogenic mother died in a freak \naccident (picnic, lightning) when I was three ...\"\n\nThe =Evening Standard= later reported more detailed pathologist's \nevidence saying that although the underwires acted as a conductor, the \nwomen would almost certainly have died if they hadn't been wearing those \nbras.\n\nDave\n\nDavid Langford\nansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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