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  "thread": {
    "id": 1247,
    "subject": "Alden Weir's Dimensionality",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-11-05T21:45:41+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-06T00:13:33+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0045@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-06T00:13:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Alden Weir's Dimensionality",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "(Maybe it should be Alder rather than Alden -- elm, though then you can't \nthrow in Den)\n\nI have the impression (coming back to the pillow story) that Weir's life\nrepresents a wrong choice at every key point in his life, while Smart \nmakes the correct choices.  Weir's final financial security/success is \nquite accidental.  Furthermore, his behaviour at the forking points -- on \nthe stairs, outside the freezer room, in the creek-bed -- is quite \nunderstandable/forgiveable (coming back to the idea of Purgatorio rather \nthan Inferno).\n\nAlso I might raise the two allusions to Cabell (and isn't there one \nCabell novel set in Florida?) -- Cabell saw Jurgen as the thinker and \nManuel as the doer (Weir/Smart?).  Felix Kennaston in the _Cream of \nthe Jest_ is perhaps even closer, though Wolfe and Cabell's world-views \nare slightly different. (do I need a smiley?).  \n\n| David Duffy.                                                    ,-_|\\\n| email: davidD at qimr.edu.au  ph: INT+61+7+3362 0217 fax: +0101   /     *\n| Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research    \\_,-._/\n| 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia                v "
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0046@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-05T21:45:41+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Alden Weir's Dimensionality",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0021-0045@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "David Duffy wrote:\nI have the impression (coming back to the pillow story) that Weir's life\nrepresents a wrong choice at every key point in his life, while Smart \nmakes the correct choices.  Weir's final financial security/success is \nquite accidental.  Furthermore, his behaviour at the forking points -- on \nthe stairs, outside the freezer room, in the creek-bed -- is quite \nunderstandable/forgiveable (coming back to the idea of Purgatorio rather \nthan Inferno).\n\nAlso I might raise the two allusions to Cabell (and isn't there one \nCabell novel set in Florida?) -- Cabell saw Jurgen as the thinker and \nManuel as the doer (Weir/Smart?).  Felix Kennaston in the _Cream of \nthe Jest_ is perhaps even closer, though Wolfe and Cabell's world-views \nare slightly different. (do I need a smiley?).  "
        },
        {
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          "text": "\tSlightly, yes.  I always thought that my high school English teacher\ndisliked fantasy (with a grudging like for Bradbury) until I discovered he'd\ndone his master's thesis on Cabell.  I tried to get him to read Wolfe (he's\neven Catholic...) for years to no avail...\n\tBy the way, looking up something about Nabokov stumbled across this\npage on lycos:  http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/borges/borges.infl.wolfe.html\n\nRight now it's just a bit from the McCaffrey interview, but it might turn into\nsomething someday..."
        },
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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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