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  "thread": {
    "id": 1864,
    "subject": "children?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-10-26T16:13:41+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-26T23:32:17+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0257@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "shannon wilde",
        "address": "swilde_99 at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-26T16:13:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: children?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "--- shannon wilde <swilde_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:\nDate: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:07:26 -0700 (PDT)\nFrom: shannon wilde <swilde_99 at yahoo.com>\nSubject: Re: children?\nTo: urth at best.lists.com\n\nForgive me, all, I couldn't resist replying to the\n\"survival as kiddy lit\" bit. I myself was turned\nonto\n_Fahrenheit 451_, first the book, then the movie,\nwhen\nI was approx 5-6 yrs old. By third grade, I had read\nall of _The Lord of the Rings_ and had read both\n_Dune_ and _The Dispossessed_ by age 11. Of course\nthat goes for _The Metamorphosis_ and some of\nBorges,\ntoo. Not bragging, really. My point is that good,and\ngreat, literature is both timeless and ageless for\nthose with the mind's eye to see. Heck, I read\nGrimm's\nand Calvino's collected fairytales, and Rudyard\nKipling, with even more pleasure than I did as a\nchild. Admittedly, Proust et al might be a bit much\nfor most youngsters (and adults) but if TBOTNS had\nbeen published when I waas shorter, it would surely\nhave been \"gold\" to me, even as _The Dying Earth_\nand\nso much of Vance was. You all were probably pretty\nexceptional folk throughout your lives, so you know\nwhat I mean. Like Bryan Cholfin (formerly editor of\nCrank! mag) Wolfe was formative to my critical and\naesthetic appreciation of modern literature. I\nwonder\nhow those solitary tots of today will be entranced\nby\nthe many wonders of Urth and sky...presumably w/o\nthe\ntall, grey-robed figures abducting them.      \n\n\n=====\n\n__________________________________________________\nDo You Yahoo!?\nBid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0259@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Daniel Fusch",
        "address": "dfusch at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-26T23:32:17+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: children?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0257@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "Shannon,\n\n(snip)\nMy point is that good,and"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "great, literature is both timeless and ageless for\nthose with the mind's eye to see."
        },
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Good point! I also discovered many of my favorite books at an early \nage...Lord of the Rings at age 8, A Wrinkle in Time at age 7 or 8, Kipling \nshortly afterward, and so on.\n\nGreat literature IS ageless/timeless! Maybe, then, we should hope that all \nthe great novels--past and present--survive into the future as children's \nlit!\n\nDaniel"
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