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  "thread": {
    "id": 2147,
    "subject": "More about 5HC Variant texts - things half-remembered",
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    "first": "2000-03-12T12:52:33+00:00",
    "last": "2000-03-12T12:52:33+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0834@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Talarican",
        "address": "exultnttalarican at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-12T12:52:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) More about 5HC Variant texts - things half-remembered",
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          "text": "From: Dan Rabin <danrabin at a.crl.com>\nSubject: Variant texts of \"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\"\nDate: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:04:35 -0800 ...\n\n\n<quote>\nMicheal Andre-Driussi writes,"
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          "text": "I vaguely remember some talk about possible diffs between \"5HC\" novella in\nORBIT and 5HC, but I can't recall if it was just speculation or somebody\nhad actually gotten down to doing the work of looking."
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          "text": "That was me, too.  The Gene-Wolfe-three-novellas editions have a brief\npassage in the scene in the library in which the narrator finds an edition\nof the short stories of Vernor Vinge.  This passage is absent in the\noriginal _Orbit_ version.\n<unquote>\n\nDan? Mantis? Maybe you can look into something that's bugged me for awhile.\n\nUnfortunately, the (Ace?) paperback edition of 5HC I read originally is long\ngone, possibly given away by my late brother, to whom it belonged; and the\nhardback (Scribner's?) edition I used more recently belongs to the county\nlibrary, so I lack either one to consult.\n\nI recall when I read the hardback library copy, I was struck by one\nparticular passage that I was positive had been added from the older\npaperback version. It was in \"A Story\", where the Old Wise One was\nexplaining to Sandwalker how the Shadow Childrens' \"singing\" worked. In the\npaperback version, as I recall, he said something like \"Shake your hands.\nNow imagine your hands gone. That is what we shake. You may call it nothing,\nbut what you think is nothing holds all things apart. When it is gone, all\nthe worlds are born\". I seem to recall the hardback version continued with\nanother new sentence, not present in the paperback, which indicated this\n\"birth\" would follow the collapse of the universe. (so the Shadow Childrens'\n\"singing\" vibrates Einstein's Cosmological Constant, or Fred Hoyle's\nC-field? <g>)\n\nAre you or any other Urthlings (Borski?) able to check that possible text\nvariation?\n\n<quote>"
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          "text": "Wow, great detective work!"
        },
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          "text": "Not really--I just happen in both cases to have read the version with the\nadded passage, then the shorter version, and noted the absence of something\nmemorable (to me, at any rate).  This shouldn't be mistaken for scholarship!\n<unquote>\nhey, works for me!"
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