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  "thread": {
    "id": 1627,
    "subject": "A Modest Pulposal",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-05-12T23:19:02+00:00",
    "last": "1999-05-12T23:19:02+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0106@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-12T23:19:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A Modest Pulposal",
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          "text": "Dave Lebling <David_Lebling at avid.com> wrote:\nWilliam Ansley suggests that every now and then, like the unwatched fall of a\nsparrow, Wolfe makes a mistake.  Well, he's actually admitted to one, on this\nvery list.  When we got to ask him impertinent questions about the Long Sun\nbooks, he admitted that a mysterious appearance of (hmm, let me think here...)\nMaytera Marble somewhere she wasn't, near the end of _Exodus_, was just an\nerror.  I remember this, however imperfectly, because I asked the\nquestion.  So\nwe can rest assured that even Jove nods."
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          "text": "He used Mint's name when he meant Marble and vice versa and he did this at\nleast two or three times in _Exodus_. I remember this quite well because I\nthought it was a very strange mistake to make. Certainly it wasn't\nincredibly subtle; I may not have caught all the substitutions the first\ntime I read _Exodus_, but I noticed some.\n\nI guess they don't make editors or copy editors like they used to (if at\nall in the case of copy editors); anyone really reading for continuity\nshould have caught Wolfe's slips. Which leads me to my point. If Wolfe\nreally feels as badly about errors like this as he said he did (and I\nbelieve he said something like, \"You'll think I'm grandstanding if I tell\nyou how bad this makes me feel\") then the solution is obvious. Wolfe should\ntell his publisher to let the members of this list read each of his new\nbooks in its final form before it is printed. I suppose that would be the\ngalley stage. We can then report any such slips we (think we) notice to\nWolfe, who can correct them if he sees fit, and then the book is sent to\nthe publisher.\n\nWhat could be simpler and more reasonable? Anyone who has a line of\ncommunication to Wolfe should feel free to pass this proposal on.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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