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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1250",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1250,
    "subject": "Chesterton. Gaiman",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-11-07T17:54:20+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-08T18:12:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0051@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-07T17:54:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Chesterton. Gaiman",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "From Wombat:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "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?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, hmmm,  the second. I've never read a word of -Sandman-; I suppose I\nshould. Though I cottoned to Gaiman right away as an interesting short story\nwriter. That \"Troll Bridge\" (?) keeps coming back to me at the oddest\nmoments.\n\n=alga"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0021-0052@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at crossover.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-08T18:12:00+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Chesterton. Gaiman",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0021-0051@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 05:54 PM 11/7/98 -0500, alga wrote:\nWell, hmmm,  the second. I've never read a word of -Sandman-; I suppose I\nshould. Though I cottoned to Gaiman right away as an interesting short story\nwriter. That \"Troll Bridge\" (?) keeps coming back to me at the oddest\nmoments."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, I'm quite fond of _Sandman_. It's very easy to overpraise it, but\nthere's some really first-rate work in it, especially in the scattered\nshort stories. Wolfe is, by evidence, a reader of it, of course; he had a\nstory in the _Sandman_ prose collection a couple of years back. (One of his\nfolk music stories--does anyone have a list of all of these?)\n\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"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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