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  "thread": {
    "id": 1048,
    "subject": "Valse triste",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-08-11T00:32:03+00:00",
    "last": "1998-08-11T00:32:03+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0018-0001@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at coredcs.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-08-11T00:32:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Valse triste",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "For those as ignorant as me, the _Valse Triste_ was written as\naccompaniment to a scene where a dying woman dreams of a ball, and\nmistaking Death for her husband, starts to dance with him. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "What David neglected to add is that Valse Triste is by Jean Sibelius,\nanother Scandinavian composer (though from Finnland, whereas Grieg--the\ncomposer of Peer Gynt--is from Norway). Valse Triste is excerpted from the\nlarger work, Kuolema (Death), a play by Arvid Jarnevelt.\n\nPeer Gynt, of course, concerns the adventures of its eponymous hero, a\nmajor proportion of which involve trolls (and hence is a major clue as to\nwho pilfers the Dunstan diary). The play itself was written by Henrik\nIbsen.\n\nWolfe, cheating a little (though I suppose it's easy enough to confuse\nScandinavian composers--outside of Grieg and Sibelius, who's left, besides\nmaybe Carl Nielsen?), manages to touch two tangents with one misascription.\n\nI also believe David is dead on about when Castleview starts--Nov. 7 or\nGeimhreadh. (It's also when 80% of the book's action takes place [Chapters\n1-29].)\n \nRobert Borski"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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