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  "thread": {
    "id": 1585,
    "subject": "Underrated in Disch's book",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-27T18:49:17+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-27T18:49:17+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0040@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-27T18:49:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Underrated in Disch's book",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "alga,"
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          "text": "This from Tom Disch, who calls Wolfe's award the \"least coveted of honors\"\nand praises TBOTNS as \"a tetrology of couth, intelligence and suavity that\nis also written in VistaVision with Dolby sound,\" continuing, \"Imagine a\nStar Wars--style space opera penned by G.K. Chesterton in the throes of a\nreligious conversion.\""
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          "text": "Innnteresting.  IIRC, in his recent book on sf, THE DREAMS STUFF ARE MADE\nOF [did I get that right?], Tom Disch gave short shrift to TBOTNS, calling\nit \"Renaissance faire\" something or other, and even managed to mangle the\nauthor's name in such a way that it looked as though the brave little\ntoaster-cum-copy editor couldn't read a scrawl in the margin, or couldn't\ncomprehend the Master's Voice over the telephoney.\n\nEasy enough to chalk this up to last minute changes--blame it on the editors!\n\nOr, what the hey, Disch contains multitudes, and consistency is the _____\nof small minds.\n\nOr, then again, maybe \"Renaissance fair\" something-or-other is just another\nway of saying \"couth, intelligence . . .\" etc.\n\n=mantis="
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