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  "thread": {
    "id": 1214,
    "subject": "Robert Graves' books [Digest urth.v019.n020]",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-10-19T17:23:21+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-19T17:58:56+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0020-0073@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at blkbrd.zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-19T17:23:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Robert Graves' books [Digest urth.v019.n020]",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "I've read most of them, a long time ago.  I subsequently\nlearnt a bit of anthropology, linguistics and history,\nall making me doubt the background element of matriarchy\nreplaced by patriarchy.  And I only ever saw the \"bln...\"\nalphabetic order in his works (\"Beth Luis Nion\"), until \njust now, when an altavista search shows them being used\nby neo-pagans.\n\nBut could he write!  Like Orwell, his work was once famous\nand is now undeservedly obscure.\n\n\t-John"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0020-0074@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-19T17:58:56+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: Robert Graves' books [Digest urth.v019.n020]",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0020-0073@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "John Bishop wrote:\nI've read most of them, a long time ago.  I subsequently\nlearnt a bit of anthropology, linguistics and history,\nall making me doubt the background element of matriarchy\nreplaced by patriarchy.  And I only ever saw the \"bln...\"\nalphabetic order in his works (\"Beth Luis Nion\"), until \njust now, when an altavista search shows them being used\nby neo-pagans.\n\nBut could he write!  Like Orwell, his work was once famous\nand is now undeservedly obscure."
        },
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "\t1984 isn't obscure, but most of his best writing (Road to Wigan Pier &\nthe essays in general) is.  1984 is an important book, but it isn't all that\nwell written, except for a spots here and there (the opening and the finale).\n\tI wonder why it happened to Orwell.  To bring us on topic, Wolfe's\ntalked about his two favorites, also far more obscure than they deserve to be,\nKipling and Chesterton.  You can see political/social agendas lurking behind\nthose falls from critical favor, but that really shouldn't hurt Orwell--I mean,\nhaving argued with Gollancz and criticized Shaw and the Webbs isn't exactly\ncause for blacklisting now that nobody defends Stalin..."
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          "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.\" - John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu)\nSenior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction)\n'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President\n608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366\nhttp://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce"
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