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    "id": 1537,
    "subject": "Wolfe essay in Lafferty book.",
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    "first": "1999-04-14T04:16:53+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0083@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Stephen Taylor",
        "address": "steve at afs.net.au"
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      "date": "1999-04-14T04:16:53+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe essay in Lafferty book.",
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          "text": "My first posting to the list and it's a rather tangential one...\n\nI just snapped up two more R.A. Lafferty books to add to my fairly\nobsessive Lafferty collection, and as I took them back to the office I\nnoticed that one of them - _East of Laughter_ has an essay by Gene\nWolfe, _Scribbling Giant_"
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          "text": "------------------------------------------------------------------\nSteve Taylor                          steve at afs.net.au\nApplied Financial Services\nPhone: +61 3 9670 0233\nFax:   +61 3 9670 5018"
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      "from": {
        "name": "Stephen Taylor",
        "address": "steve at afs.net.au"
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      "date": "1999-04-14T04:22:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe essay in Lafferty book.",
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          "text": "[Pardon the initial mangled version of this message.]\n\nMy first posting to the list and it's a rather tangential one...\n\nI just snapped up two more R.A. Lafferty books to add to my fairly\nobsessive Lafferty collection, and as I took them back to the office I\nnoticed that one of them - _East of Laughter_ has an essay by Gene\nWolfe, _Scribbling Giant_ in the first 260 copies printed. \n\nNeedless to say, my copy is not amongst that 260.\n\nHas anyone read the essay in question? Any comments?\n\n\n\n                                 Steve"
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          "text": "------------------------------------------------------------------\nSteve Taylor                          steve at afs.net.au\nApplied Financial Services\nPhone: +61 3 9670 0233\nFax:   +61 3 9670 5018"
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