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  "thread": {
    "id": 1526,
    "subject": "Humble retractions",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-13T09:18:25+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-13T09:18:25+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0064@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "potto at webmail.co.za"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-13T09:18:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Humble retractions",
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          "text": "I must apologize for two rash utterances:\n1) Any literary feud between Wolfe and Aldiss: Damien Broderick is on\nthe inside track with Brian Aldiss, and his testimony to the contrary\nshould be respected. The closest I've come to meeting Aldiss was when,\nat the age of one, I lived next door to his mother... But concerning\nHELLICONIA: this was, I suppose, the best way Aldiss could continue in\na baroque idiom after any Malacia sequel was nixed. HELLICONIA simply\nisn't as good, a fact Dr. Broderick makes abundantly clear in READING\nBY STARLIGHT. I think it is still eminently possible that THE MALACIA\nTAPESTRY inspired Wolfe.\n2) My statement that WHORL had become inactive: this is indeed\nnonsense. I thought I'd subscribed to WHORL, and that the lack of any\nDigests sent to me meant it had fallen silent...\nOne further note on Wolfean authors: has anyone else read Elizabeth\nHand's WINTERLONG and its sequels? They're a clear, and initially very\ngood, homage to TBotNS.\n//--------------------------------------\nNicholas Gevers\npotto at webmail.co.za"
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