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  "thread": {
    "id": 1197,
    "subject": "(no subject)",
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    "first": "1998-10-16T13:19:05+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-16T13:19:05+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0020-0041@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-16T13:19:05+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth)",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Kevin J. Maroney wrote:\nAt 08:47 AM 10/16/98 -0400, Rostrum wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Memory."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"Memory\" doesn't seem to me to be a theme, but a subject matter (just as,\nsay, time-travel is a subject matter). \n\n\"All of life is a fragmentary memory, even as we are living it\" would be a\ntheme."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I didn't mean that as literally as you took it (although I was rewarded\nwith a thoughtful and interesting response).\n\nI meant that many of Wolfe's themes involve the necessity of uncovering a\npast that has been lost or replaced with lies (Long Sun), that we have\nforgotten who we really are (Soldier, Forlesen and many other short\nstories), that there might be redemption in remembering (Peace).   "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Wolfe is more varied. Yes, memory features prominently in _The Book of the\nNew Sun_ and the _Soldier_ novels (and in so many smaller works) but in\nvery different ways; I would say that its role in _The Book of the Long\nSun_ is, while certainly not absent, much less central and not in a\nthematic continuum with either of those. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Yes they differ, but we were asked to sum up Wolfe in a single theme, and\nfor me \"memory\" describes a lot of Wolfe's different themes.\n\n-Rostrum"
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