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  "thread": {
    "id": 2142,
    "subject": "Philip K. Dick influence on GW",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-03-08T14:13:27+00:00",
    "last": "2000-03-08T14:27:30+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0827@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeremy Crampton",
        "address": "jcrampto at osf1.gmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-08T14:13:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Philip K. Dick influence on GW",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Hello,\n\nI have a quick question: has anybody ever thought about possible influences\non Wolfe's work by Philip K. Dick? I'm thinking of the scene for example in\nURTH where Severian speculates that the door may have been bribed, and the\nscene in UBIK where Joe Chip doesn't have a nickel to give the doorknob.\nIt's quite a famous PKD scene so it might not be as obscure as it sounds.\n\nI don't recall there being discussion about this before. Can anybody think\nof any others?\n__\nJeremy W. Crampton\t\t         http://geog.gmu.edu    jcrampto at gmu.edu\nDept. of Geography & Earth Science\n[MS 1E2]\t\t\t\t’Tis true; there’s magic in the web of it.\nGeorge Mason University\t\t\t\t\t--Othello (III.iv.69)\nFairfax, Va 22030"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0828@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Greene, Carlton",
        "address": "cgreene2 at hunton.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-08T14:27:30+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Philip K. Dick influence on GW",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0827@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Jeremy wrote:\nI have a quick question: has anybody ever thought about possible\ninfluences\non Wolfe's work by Philip K. Dick? I'm thinking of the scene for example\nin\nURTH where Severian speculates that the door may have been bribed, and the\nscene in UBIK where Joe Chip doesn't have a nickel to give the doorknob.\nIt's quite a famous PKD scene so it might not be as obscure as it sounds.\n\nI don't recall there being discussion about this before. Can anybody think\nof any others?"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "One quick and easy parallel is the use of proper names translated to reflect\nthe original meanings of the words.  Compare PKD's Horselover Fat with Seven\nLions in Soldier."
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      ]
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