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    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1942,
    "subject": "Long Sun Worth it?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-11-09T03:37:02+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-09T11:09:48+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0432@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Patri10629",
        "address": "patri10629 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-09T03:37:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re:Long Sun Worth it?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "The question baffles me. Alga's initial dismay baffles me. But, I am, in \ngeneral baffled:)\n\nYes, read it. It is yummy and good for you.\n\nPatrick O'Leary"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0439@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-09T11:09:48+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re:Long Sun Worth it?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0432@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "At 22:37 1999-11-08 EST, Patri10629 at aol.com wrote:\nThe question baffles me. Alga's initial dismay baffles me. But, I am, in \ngeneral baffled:)"
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          "text": "I had the same reaction as alga in the very beginning; I think it's\nbecause of the very simple and direct style of writing, and the\nbright colours (1). The initial feel is rather like a comic book (2);\nit reminded me strongly of _Castleview_ in that respect (3). Only after\nreading for a while and *observing*, watching the events unfold\nand picking up impressions of Silk's character from his actions (4),\ndoes the quality of the writing become clear. Not a comic, but\na stained glass window.\n\n1) I'm sure colours are important, but being only a Bear I can't\nrecall the details without going home and looking them up. Let's\nthink: the main appearances of Blue and Green are obvious, so I\nstarted looking for Red. There's Blood, and Rose, and probably\nothers. Then there was the orangey colour of the scarf, and I\nhave a feeling yellow turned up too, but that might just have\nbeen the (erroneous) colour of the sky on the covers (5).\n\n2) I know there are literary comics, but those aren't the ones I mean.\n\n3) Likewise, no disrespect to _Castleview_. We must have another\ngo at that some time! I actually understood one or two bits last\ntime I read it.\n\n4) No-one ever *tells* us a thing about Silk, but we come to know\nhim very well from seeing his actions and hearing his words. This\nought to be the textbook example for \"show, don't tell\". It's a\ntowering literary achievement, a real tour de force. It also\nexplodes utterly the common belief that it's impossible to make\na \"good\" character interesting.\n\n5) The British editions had stained glass windows on the spines,\nand to begin with they joined up into a bigger picture. But then\ntwo of them repeated and stopped joining up. Was this just a bug,\nor couldn't they afford any more artwork, or what?"
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          "text": "Yes, read it. It is yummy and good for you."
        },
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          "text": "So it is. I've read the first book several times now, having\nstarted again every time another book came out, but I can't\nimagine ever tiring of it.\n\nSpectacled Bear."
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