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  "thread": {
    "id": 1857,
    "subject": "Tale at the end of PEACE",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-26T09:29:58+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-26T09:29:58+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0238@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-26T09:29:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tale at the end of PEACE",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Nicholas Gevers wrote:\n1) Someone (I think alga) states that \"The Tale of the\nStudent and His Son\" would not work as a short story\nin a magazine, but is very effective in its NEW SUN\ncontext. This may well be true, but the \"Tale\" did in\nfact appear as an independent story, in THE MAGAZINE\nOF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, October 1981."
        },
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          "text": "Speaking of tales out of context.  The tale of the Sidhe at the end of\n_Peace_ is still one of my favorite things Wolfe has written.  I tried to\ntell it from memory to some friends recently and got it mostly right (I\ncouldn't remember the name of the hero whose arrows were plumed with the\nflocks feathers), but I mistakenly said that that the three siblings grew\nold and died at the end when Weer's narrative simply reveals that they had\ngrown extremely old and then moves on (sort of). \n\nThe Sidhe are tied up symbolically with Weer, of course, but if you were\nto try to abstract this story from Weer's like I did, how would you end\nit?  Do the Sidhe die immediately, or are we to imagine them wandering\naround for a bit in their old age after their baptism?  Or would you just\nread it straight as Wolfe wrote it and let the listener cope with the\nabrupt ending?\n\nThe ideal solution, of course, is to pass out copies of PEACE to all my\nfriends. \n\n-Rostrum"
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