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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/786",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 786,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v010.n087",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-02-23T21:17:36+00:00",
    "last": "2000-05-08T05:12:15+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0270@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-23T21:17:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n087",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Mssr. Newt, my memory fails also as to whether\nHyacinth was an engineered embryo, though Silk and\nChenille sure were. Anyone? How about a few characters\nnot much speculated on, or even, eek, _all_ the, uh\nhuman Whorl denizens? (just spitballin here...)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Could any of you tell me either where you read this or how you figured it \nout?  I am finding that I have missed many of the things you all have \ndiscussed and that my skill in literature analysis is not too high."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, if you kept on reading, you'll have found that we agreed that there is no evidence of this, that the above memory was faulty. Of course, there is no firm evidence that it's not true, either, and Hy does seem surprising in a number of ways--so we can't say for sure.\n\nI'm sorry to have to say this, but since you seem to be female, a proper Vironese name for you would have to be vegetable rather than animal.\n\n-alga\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0339@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "E Dorian",
        "address": "edorian at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-08T05:12:15+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n087",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0270@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Alice Turner\" <akt at attglobal.net>\nDate: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:17:36 -0500\n\nI'm sorry to have to say this, but since you seem to be female, a proper \nVironese name for you would have to be vegetable rather than animal."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "(Please pardon my taking 3 months to reply!)\n\nAck!  I am quite definitely male, and a big, brutish-looking one at that.  I \nam just not brutish-acting.  I strive to be genteel and unassuming.\n\nAnyway, sorry for the confusion, and thanks for the input!\n\nDragonfly"
        }
      ]
    }
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