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  "thread": {
    "id": 827,
    "subject": "The Remarkable Mr. Gevers",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2000-05-04T22:07:31+00:00",
    "last": "2000-05-08T13:34:41+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0336@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-04T22:07:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) The Remarkable Mr. Gevers",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Those of us who feel we've lost LS momentum might want to check out this\nweb-essay to pick it up again (full disclosure, mantis gave it to me):\nhttp://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/ultan/briah.htm\n\nI was quite dazzled by parts of it, and a bit put off by others. What do\ny'all think?\n\n-alga\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0337@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-05T00:54:31+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) The Remarkable Mr. Gevers",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0336@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "The redoubtable alga set out to provide the URL for my\nessays on THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN, but the text she\nwas using doesn't seem to have been html-friendly (if\nthat's the right term). So, just for the record, the\ntwin essays \"Five Steps Towards Briah\" and \"The Reader\nas Augur\" are available online at Jonathan Laidlow's\nstill-developing ULTAN'S LIBRARY:\n\nhttp://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/ultan\n\nThe second essay is being published for the first\ntime, and is more complete than the version I sent\nsome people on the list last year.\n\n--Mr. Gethers."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0341@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "matthew.malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-08T13:25:34+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) The Remarkable Mr. Gevers",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0337@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 05/05/2000 03:07:31 AM Alice Turner wrote:\nhttp://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/ultan/briah.htm\n\nI was quite dazzled by parts of it, and a bit put off by others. What do\ny'all think?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"Sorry... but the page you are looking for is no longer on Tripod (or you may\nhave mistyped the URL).\"\n\nMatthew\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0342@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "matthew.malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-08T13:34:41+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) The Remarkable Mr. Gevers",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0341@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 05/05/2000 08:54:31 AM  wrote:\nhttp://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/ultan"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Grrr...\n\nJust fired off a misserable message 'casue the other URL was duff then this pops\nup making me feel curmudgeonly.  However the new one just says \"Ultan's Library\nis currently closed. Opening soon - June 2000!\"\n\nNow maybe I'm miserable because I've just got back from holiday and I'm trying\nto get back in the work spirit (by not doing any, reading Urth & Whorl is\n_usually_ more fun) but c'mon such tricks are not lightening the post-vacation\ndepression any.\n\nMatthew\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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