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  "thread": {
    "id": 2039,
    "subject": "Of Mice and Milton",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-12-17T10:00:43+00:00",
    "last": "1999-12-17T13:08:07+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0639@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-17T13:08:07+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Of Mice and Milton",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I was reading \"Three Fingers\" again recently, and came up with a few\nquestions. I still don't know what it's about!\n\nMichael shows a Snow White model to a woman who comments that she\nhasn't seen Snow White for years. Is this just her, or has no-one\nseen Snow White for years? If not, why not?\n\nThe signed photos seem to be quite dated; I don't even remember which\nfilms Tommy Kirk and Annette were in. Is it reasonable for Michael to\nbe selling photos of these particular people at the time in which the\nstory is set? Do we know when it is set? Snow White is also a very early\nDisney character.\n\nReserpine was once used to treat psychosis, but its side-effects include\nnightmares. Is it the cause of the apparent hallucinations at the end\nof the story, or treatment for them?\n\nThe \"Queen\" says that she has had good results with synthetic para-reserpine\n\"on him\". Does this mean that Michael has been treated before, if that's\nreally what is happening?\n\nFinally, what on earth are Harley and Amaryllis doing in the story?\nThey come from Richard Hill's short story \"To Sport with Amaryllis\",\npublished, like many Wolfe shorts, in the Orbit series of anthologies.\nThe title comes from Milton's poem \"Lycidas\", where he is musing on\nthe merits of idle pleasure versus working hard for fame. This might\nbe nothing more than a cameo, but the associations are suggestive.\n\nOrbit 7: <http://www.best.com./~contento/t55.html#A1283>\nLycidas: <http://www.bartleby.com/101/317.html>\nReserpine: <http://lysine.pharm.utah.edu/netpharm_98/druglist/reserpine.htm>\n\nSpectacled Bear."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0642@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-17T10:00:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Of Mice and Milton",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0639@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Peter Westlake wrote:\nMichael shows a Snow White model to a woman who comments that she\nhasn't seen Snow White for years. Is this just her, or has no-one\nseen Snow White for years? If not, why not?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't know if this is still true, but for a while (I think, perhaps I'm\nremembering this wrong), Disney did not release some if its classic movies\non video; they could only be seen when they re-released them in theatres\nevery so often.   \n\nIf I'm not just making this up out of some confused old memory, it could\nbe part of what Wolfe is talking about there.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    }
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