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  "thread": {
    "id": 2122,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v028.n150",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-02-08T10:44:57+00:00",
    "last": "2000-02-08T10:44:57+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0785@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "pei047 at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-08T10:44:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v028.n150",
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          "text": "Wm Ansley noted that:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"Jeremy W. Crampton\" <jcrampto at gmu.edu> wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Publishers Weekly\n(December 20, 1999; 0-312-87227-5)"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "[...]"
        },
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          "text": "Opening with \"Bluesberry Jam,\" Wolfe (The Book of the\nLong Sun series, etc.) creates an intriguing speculative\nfuture in which an entire culture arises from people who have\nbeen stuck in a traffic jam for decades. This conceit is\nultimately negated, however, by the most tired of clich\u0002s in\nthe closing story, \"Ain't You 'Most Done,\" which is set in the\nsame world."
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        {
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          "text": "Does anyone else remember the Jean-Luc Godard movie \"Weekend,\" about a massive traffic jam that stopped cars leaving Paris? It was visually arresting and quite funny. Much more sophisticated in tone than the Wolfe story (which I found annoyingly sentimental and corny--I dislike nearly all his \"modern\" material,\" though I'll make a provisory exception for \"The Ziggurat\"), but I wouldn't be surprised if it was the original impetus. "
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I have to agree with the last review that Jeremy W. Crampton was kind\nenough to provide for us. My feeling on reaching the end of \"Ain't You\n'Most Done\" was, \"Oh, no! Not again!\".\n\nWolfe has so many characters in this kind of predicament that I think the\nprimary thing you should keep in mind when reading him is not \"Find the\nwolf\" (which doesn't strike me as being particularly helpful, even in the\ncase of \"The Ziggurat\") but \"When did the main character die and does he\nknow it yet?\"."
        },
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ted Klein, the original editor of the Twilight Zone magazine, long dead now (the mag, not Ted), once published a hilarious list of the hoariest cliches found in the slush pile. \"Hey, I'm really dead!\" was near the top of the list.\n\n-alga"
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