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  "thread": {
    "id": 2127,
    "subject": "alga-rhyme",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-02-09T09:46:55+00:00",
    "last": "2000-02-09T09:46:55+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0790@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-09T09:46:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) alga-rhyme",
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      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "alga wrote:\nBut for the purposes of our\ncalibrating your tastes, where does such a modern tale as \"Forlesen\" fall?\nDo you dislike it as much?  Or is it below the radar (i.e., completely\nforgotten)?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "No, I quite liked that. But it is a fable, not a realistic contemporary story."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "And how about \"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I get confused about those stories with the similar names. But if that is\nthe one with the boy with the weird head, I liked it a lot. But it's\nhardly realistic. If it's the Tackman one, ditto. The hospital one, no."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "\"Beech Hill\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Below the radar. (But I can't remember titles.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I mean, I can guess that you dislike \"The Woman Who Loved the\nCentaur Pholus.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Correct."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Okey-dokey.  (THE DEVIL IN THE FOREST as realistic and contemporary? <g>)\nSo I would posit that you like \"The Ziggurat\" better than most of the\ncontemporary lot because you sense that it does deviate from \"realistic\"\ninto some form of fantastic (surreal, dream, etc.); that it leaves behind\nthe outer world of surfaces to dive deeply into the/an inner world.  (Not\nto spur on more talk of the Zig, just to see how it crosses your internal\nboundary from a badland into the verge of likeable.)\n\n\"The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus\" probably leaves you cold because\nit is stuck in the outer world of surfaces, making a Greek myth concrete in\ncontemporary terms.  (In part based upon the guess that you don't like \"the\nhospital one\" of the Dr. Death tales because it has a technological source\nfor the magic.)  Likewise I'd guess that you feel CASTLEVIEW plays fast\nwith Arthur on its surface, yet lacks true depth (or even the illusion of\ndepth) on either Arthur or anything else; all (dizzy) surface, no (inner)\ndepth.\n\nRe: traffic jams in foreign cinema, I thought there was a Fellini film that\nstarted this way.\n\n=mantis="
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