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  "thread": {
    "id": 1934,
    "subject": "The Clarity of Clute",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-11-07T21:15:18+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-08T10:45:47+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0420@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-07T21:15:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Clarity of Clute",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "It's unlikely that alga and Kevin will ever agree with\nme about the inherent merits of Clute's prose style;\nwe keep accusing each other of missing the point,\nwhich suggests we're doing far too much pointing. Let\nme (with any luck) close this correspondence by saying\nthat, yes, Clute can muddy the waters terribly with\nhis Latinisms and Hellenisms, but that it's his use of\nsuch stylistic mannerisms that makes his criticism\ndistinctive and (within limits) popular. If one is\nfamiliar with these mannerisms (as many by now are),\none will recognize Clute's review of OBW as an attempt\nto match Wolfe's content with an equivalent exuberance\nof language, conveying the critic's aesthetic\nexcitement to the reader. So many other critics write\ndull stodge, losing any excitement utterly in the\nprocess; they're like hardware commentators\nexpatiating on the technical virtues of different\nkinds of monkey wrench.\n\n\n====="
        }
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0422@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at crossover.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-08T10:45:47+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) The Clarity of Clute",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0420@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "At 09:15 PM 11/7/99 -0800, Nick wrote:\nIt's unlikely that alga and Kevin will ever agree with\nme about the inherent merits of Clute's prose style;"
        },
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          "text": "Possibly. I like Clute's writing, and I like his thoughts a great deal. But\nhe sometimes writes really bad sentences. \n\nWombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html"
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