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  "thread": {
    "id": 1678,
    "subject": "ACoC Dialectic!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-06-09T17:01:47+00:00",
    "last": "1999-06-09T17:01:47+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0079@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-06-09T17:01:47+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) ACoC Dialectic!",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Nigel Price,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Re: Blish's ACOC, you wrote:\nOther than\nthat, I can't make up my mind whether it's a peculiar twist in Blish's own\nthinking, or the effect of the novel's technique, which is to set the main\ncharacters against each other in a sort of chiaroscuro dialectic,\nreminiscent in both its brilliance and its staginess of George Bernard Shaw\nat his most argumentative.  (There are parts of the first book of ACoC\nwhich are actually set out as dramatic dialogue, as if written for a play.)"
        },
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          "text": "Thanks--I wanted to say something like that!  (Rather than Shaw, I was\ngoing to draw attention back to the [in my mind] similar roughness of\nCordwainer Smith's \"Scanners Live in Vain,\" full of declamations!  And\nstark revelations!  People speak frank!  [As contrast to Smith's \"Alpha\nRalpha Boulevard\"]  But that would only have led to tangents on Cordwainer\nSmith.)\n\nHurry up and finish reading it, so you can say whatever it was I was going\nto say!\n\n=mantis="
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