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  "thread": {
    "id": 1870,
    "subject": "more modernism (gulp!)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-27T03:45:57+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-27T03:45:57+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0283@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "pei047 at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-27T03:45:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) more modernism (gulp!)",
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          "text": "Well, I'm sort of astonished that there's so much interest in this subject,\nbut it's a kick, too. I'll add a couple of thoughts. I mentioned -Catch-22-\nas \"pop modernism.\" I'd like to add to that category the oeuvres of Kurt\nVonnegut and Philip K. Dick. Vonnegut was an interesting writer, early on.\nHe's become a lazy hack, and I think it's great that he's announced his\n\"retirement,\" since I don't want to read any more of his books. Dick was a\nhack too, but I think he could be counted among the more interesting pop\nmodernists. I confess that I never could read much of him either. (One of\nthe conditions for joining the club seems to be relative unreadability.) His\npost-mortem elevation is certainly a phenomenon.\n\n-alga"
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