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  "thread": {
    "id": 2040,
    "subject": "Pandora, By Holly Hollander, by Gene Wolfe, By Kurt Vonnegut",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-12-17T08:56:18+00:00",
    "last": "1999-12-17T08:56:18+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0640@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-17T08:56:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Pandora, By Holly Hollander, by Gene Wolfe, By Kurt Vonnegut",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "A fair but not trivial question. I'm assuming we're considering this _as\nif_ the fictional Kilgore Trout were real - we're not considering the\nquestion of what happens if Vonnegut writes a story reproducing the entire\ntext of TBOTNS by Trout, or even Philip Jose Farmer writing TBOTNS while\npretending to be KT. (One knew that _someone_ was pretending to be KT.)"
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          "text": "Well, when Vonnegut writes\n\n \"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we\nare their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.\" \n\nit's certainly much different than Wolfe's \n\n \"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we\nare their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.\"\n\nYou can clearly see the difference. Alot of other identical texts are\npretty different too. Do you think Vonnegut did that intentionally?\nVonnegut's Severian lies alot less than Wolfe's does too.\n\n\n\n\n:-)\nPaul"
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