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  "thread": {
    "id": 1398,
    "subject": "Ain't You 'Most Done?",
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    "first": "1999-02-28T15:50:50+00:00",
    "last": "1999-02-28T15:50:50+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0019@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Moar",
        "address": "jwm1 at st-andrews.ac.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-28T15:50:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Ain't You 'Most Done?",
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          "text": "James Moar\n\nFrom the Evil Overlord List: No. 116\nIf I capture the hero's starship, I will keep it in the landing bay with the\nramp down, only a few token guards on duty, and a ton of explosives set to\ngo off as soon as it clears the blast-range.\n\n----------\nFrom: \"James Moar\" <jwm1 at st-and.ac.uk>\nTo: urth at lists.best.com\nSubject: Ain't You 'Most Done?\nDate: Sun, Feb 28, 1999, 3:11 pm\n\n\nAnyone seen Gene Wolfe's story \"Ain't You 'Most done?\" in Sandman: Book of\nDreams?\n\nI don't have much to say about it, other than getting the usual feeling of a\nGene Wolfe story - ie, that I'm missing at least 90% of the point.\n\nThe only notable subtleties I caught were the resemblance between the\napplying of makeup and the change in appearance of a corpse, and the\nappearances of Dream and Death (which weren't hard to spot, in context).\n\n\nJames Moar\n\nFrom the Evil Overlord List: No. 116\nIf I capture the hero's starship, I will keep it in the landing bay with the\nramp down, only a few token guards on duty, and a ton of explosives set to\ngo off as soon as it clears the blast-range."
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