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  "thread": {
    "id": 1631,
    "subject": "methods",
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    "first": "1999-05-15T19:13:31+00:00",
    "last": "1999-05-15T19:13:31+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0111@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Patri10629",
        "address": "patri10629 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-15T19:13:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: methods",
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          "text": "Dear vizcacha, Tony, et all\n\nI guess I didn't get the joke:) Sincere apologies. And I didn't mean to come \noff as the Thought Police: \"Topic Off Limits--Go No Further.\" Honestly, I \ndidn't.\n\nI too love THE CASTLE OF THE OTTER. I thought we were talking about the \nactual \"how\" Wolfe does it--not his ideas, forms, symbols, tactics, \naesthetic, theology--all of which I find fascinating too. But speculating on \nuseless things. Like what brand of computer I'm typing on now. Or what I'm \nsmoking. Know what I mean? Oh never mind. I was probably just tired.\n\nOn the topic of \"line-editing:\" It is disgruntling to see sloppy, stupid \nmistakes in a book as a reader. It is even more alarming to the writers I \nknow--trust me. So I doubt Wolfe's statement about how much finding mistakes \nof the \"Marble/Mint\" sort disturbs him is an exaggeration.  In my experience, \nusually by the time it's published, a novel has been spellchecked and proofed \nmany times. By the writer, friends, assistant editor, the editor, the \nproofreader.  And yet entropy rules. \n\nMy editor is also Wolfe's: David G. Hartwell. An extraordinarily careful and \ncritical reader. He, too, is dismayed by the sloppy line-editing he sees. He \ntold me that he read the ms. to Citadel of The Autarch twice, and found, \nafter all that, One Word he could suggest that Wolfe change. (No idea whether \nor not Gene took his advice.) But this tells you a lot about the care Gene \ntakes with his writing. On a typewriter no less! \n\nWhoops! I've slid off topic!\n\n\nbest as always\n\nPatrick"
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