{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/890",
    "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.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
  },
  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 890,
    "subject": "The OBW / IGJ transition",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-08-01T01:48:14+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-01T01:48:14+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0026@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-01T01:48:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) The OBW / IGJ transition",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "One important clue to why IGJ starts out in a\ndifferent, much more positive mood than Horn was in at\nthe end of OBW can be found, naturally enough, in\nChapter 1 of IGJ: the encounter with Cugino. It's not\nonly that Cugino's friendly helpfulness restores some\nof Horn's confidence in the potentiality for human\ngoodness, a small demonstration that Horn\npsychologically multiplies; more, Cugino's crafting of\na staff for Horn symbolises the possibility of the\nliberation of humanity (the tree) from the oppression\nof the inhumi (the creeper). I suspect that this\nunobtrusive scene can help illuminate the secret of\nthe inhumi; it certainly lifts Horn's spirits considerably."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}