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  "thread": {
    "id": 1960,
    "subject": "Father Inire is Jeeves",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-11-17T12:59:53+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-21T00:44:11+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0466@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-17T12:59:53+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Father Inire is Jeeves",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Continuing the \"Tintin\" post's tradition of offering spurious sources for\nWolfe's ideas:\n\n\"He has a way of suddenly materializing at one's side like one of those Indian\nblokes who shoot their astral bodies to and fro, going into thin air in Rangoon\nand re-assembling the parts in Calcutta.  I think it's done with mirrors.\"\n\n-P. G. Wodehouse, JOY IN THE MORNING\n\n\n\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32"
        },
        {
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          "text": "Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce"
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0494@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-21T00:44:11+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Father Inire is Jeeves",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0466@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu> wrote:\nContinuing the \"Tintin\" post's tradition of offering spurious sources for\nWolfe's ideas:\n\n\"He has a way of suddenly materializing at one's side like one of those Indian\nblokes who shoot their astral bodies to and fro, going into thin air in\nRangoon\nand re-assembling the parts in Calcutta.  I think it's done with mirrors.\"\n\n-P. G. Wodehouse, JOY IN THE MORNING"
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          "text": "Aha! Another Wodehouse fan (or, at least, reader).\n\nWhat other \"Bertie Wooster Universe\" (or we may need to widen it to the\nwhole \"P. G. Wodehouse Universe\") to \"New Sun Universe\" character mappings\ncan we do?\n\nWell, if Father Inre is Jeeves then I suppose Severian is Bertie Wooster.\nThey share a tendency to miss things that seem obvious to the reader, at\nleast.\n\nAgia = Roberta \"Bobby\" Wickham\n\nBaldanders = D'Arcy \"Stilton\" Cheesewright\n\nAbia = Aunt Agatha\n\nJonas = Gussie Fink-Nottle?\n\nThis is turning out to be not only one of my more pointless exercises, but\nquite difficult as well. Wolfe and Wodehouse certainly differ widely (one\nmight say wildly) in style, subject matter and intent in their writing.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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