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  "thread": {
    "id": 771,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v010.n076",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-01-30T20:59:00+00:00",
    "last": "2000-01-31T12:35:45+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0250@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Langford",
        "address": "ansible at cix.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-30T20:59:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n076",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Alga wrote:\nthe apparition of Patera Pike (LS1), which has caused a great deal of \nfingerwork on many keyboards for these archives. (I still think it was \nQuetzal, though.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "And Nutria wrote:\n[...] am inclined to agree\nwith Alga that the ghost of Patera Pike is in fact Quetzal."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "When members of this very list posed a number of questions to Wolfe back \nin 1997, Q27 and Wolfe's answer went as follows:\n\n Is Pike's ghost really Quetzal?\n No.\n \nOf course it might still have been some other inhumu! I ran this material \nas part of an APA contribution, and it's still on my website at:\n\n www.ansible.demon.co.uk/cc/cc77.html#wolfe\n\nAlso Alex David Groce wrote, in the context of Horn's rape of Seawrack \nand the ring:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Covenant raped Lena, who (did she?  I don't\nreally remember) gives him a white-gold ring with mysterious powers."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Um, no: Covenant's ring is his wedding ring, from this world and from \nbefore his leprosy.\n\nClearly I'm feeling picky today!\n\nDave\n\nDavid Langford\nansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.co.uk/\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0254@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-31T12:35:45+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n076",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0250@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Dave Langford said:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Also Alex David Groce wrote, in the context of Horn's rape of Seawrack \nand the ring:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Covenant raped Lena, who (did she?  I don't\nreally remember) gives him a white-gold ring with mysterious powers."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Um, no: Covenant's ring is his wedding ring, from this world and from \nbefore his leprosy."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Thank goodness--I just haven't read the Covenant books in so long that my\nmemory of the details is slowly eroding.  This lessens the spooky resemblance\nconsiderably.\n\nBy the way, you can all drop the \"David Groce\" part.  \"Alex\" is plenty (the\nstuffy signature is because I'm too lazy to get multiple signatures working\nright with my Rube Goldberg mh mail interface to emacs).\n\n\n\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32"
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          "text": "Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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