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  "thread": {
    "id": 1249,
    "subject": "Chesterton",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1998-11-06T16:35:50+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-06T20:31:03+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0048@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at smtp.emailserv.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-06T16:35:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Chesterton",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "How interesting to read in that Borges site (for which, thanks) that both\nNeil Gaiman and Umberto Eco are fond of G.K. Chesterton.\n\n-alga"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0049@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at crossover.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-06T17:25:48+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Chesterton",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0021-0048@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 04:35 PM 11/6/98 -0500, alga wrote:\nHow interesting to read in that Borges site (for which, thanks) that both\nNeil Gaiman and Umberto Eco are fond of G.K. Chesterton."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The Gaiman fact is pretty well-established--there's a character in\n_Sandman_ who is clearly Chesterton. (Gilbert, who features prominently in\nthe second story arc, \"A Doll's House\", with occasional other appearances\nthroughout the series, is physically and temperamentally very much modeled\non Chesterton.)\n\nOr were you commenting on the delightful oddity of learning about Gaiman's\nfondness for Chesterton on a Borges site?\n\nWombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0050@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-06T20:31:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Chesterton",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0021-0049@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "He's turning up everywhere. I've just started to read Harold\nBloom's -Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human-. On p 10:\n\n\"Though G.K. Chesterton liked to think that Shakespeare was a Catholic, at\nleast in spirit, Chesterton was too good a critic to locate Shakespeare's\nuniversalism in Christianity. We might learn from that not to shape\nShakespeare by our own cultural politics. Comparing Shakespeare with Dante,\nChesterton emphasized Date's spaciousness in dealing with Christian love and\nChristian liberty, whereas Shakespeare \"was a pagan, in so far as he is at\nhis greatest is describing great spirits in chaos.\"....\n\n-alga"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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