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    "id": 2080,
    "subject": "Infrequently Questioned Answers Questioned",
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    "first": "2000-01-20T20:11:02+00:00",
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0708@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-20T20:11:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Infrequently Questioned Answers Questioned",
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          "text": "From: \"David Lebling\" <dlebling at shore.net>\nSubject: Infrequently Asked Question Answered\nHave you ever noticed that none of Wolfe's space colonies seem to be very\nhappy places?\n(Then again, I suppose none of Wolfe's _places_ seem to be very happy.)"
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          "text": "Yes, I agree with both of these.  Anyone think there might be a dash of the\n`tortured Catholic soul', as in Graham Greene or (sometimes) Evelyn Waugh,\nor [puts on BBC arts correspondent voice] can one make too much of that\naspect?  Silk is probably the clearest evidence, but does this extend to\nall Wolfe's worlds?  You can argue Silk is closer to Wolfe's universe's\nview of itself than Severian, since the latter misses so much, while Silk\nis much more contemplative.  But maybe contemplative means more gloomy in\nany case.  I always stop when I start arguing in circles.\n\ncorncrake\n\nPS: I'm now on McAuley's `Ancient of Days'.  He even uses the word\n`hierodule' at one point.  If this isn't a conscious homage to Wolfe (as\nquoted last week), he must have a very baggy unconscious.  But I can\nbelieve that anyway."
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