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  "thread": {
    "id": 2162,
    "subject": "Wolfe misc.",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-03-24T12:00:50+00:00",
    "last": "2000-03-24T12:00:50+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0855@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ron Crown",
        "address": "crownrw at slu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-24T12:00:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe misc.",
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          "text": "Since things are rather slow on the list, I thought I would share a couple\nof recent extra-genre references to Wolfe which show that our man is making\nhis mark in the larger world.\n\nThe first is from the book A General Theory Of Love by published recently by\nRandom House.  I haven't read the whole thing but on p. 32-33 there's a\ndiscussion of \"humanity's three brains\" which eventuates in this comment\nfollowed by a quote from Wolfe.\n\n\t'From modern neuroanatomy,' writes a pair of neuroscience researchers, 'it\nis apparent that the entire neocortex of humans \tcontinues to be regulated\nby the paralimbic regions from which it evolved.'  The novelist [!] Gene\nWolfe makes an identical, \talbeit lovelier, observation:\n\n\tWe say, 'I will,' and 'I will not,' and imagine ourselves (though we obey\nthe orders of some prosaic person every day) our own \tmasters, whhen the\ntruth is that our masters are sleeping.  One wakes within us, and we are\nridden like beats, though the \trider is but some hitherto unguessed part of\nourselves.\n\nQuick, those of you with Severian-like memory, where is the quote from?\n\nThe second reference is from a mystery novel by John Dunning with the title\nBooked to Die.  It's about an ex-Denver cop turned used(antiquarian sounds a\nlittle high falutin for the kind of books mentioned) bookseller (really) and\nis full of interesting details about that world of used book dealings, etc.\n(The author is former used book dealer himself.)  The murder victim in the\nbook is a \"bookscout\" (someone who haunts estate sales, etc. looking for\nthat rare item that will make his fortune).  When one of the characters is\nasked about the last time he saw the bookscout, he replies, 'You mean the\nbookscout?  He knows I don't buy stock from scouts.  They want too much for\nthe run-of-the-mill stuff.  He comes in if he's got a King or Burroughs, or\nmaybe an early Gene Wolfe.\"\n\nI assume that \"Burroughs\" is Edgar Rice rather than William S. so Wolfe is\nstill being associated with genre authors.  And I suppose he specified \"Gene\nWolfe\" to avoid confusion with Thomas and Tom.  But at least he's\ncollectible!  (And why didn't I pick up that 1st ed. Shadow in the book\nstore in 1980?!)\n\nRon Crown, D.Phil., M.S.L.S.\nReference Librarian\nPius XII Memorial Library\nSaint Louis University\ncrownrw at slu.edu\nPhone:  314-977-3593\nFAX:     314-977-3108"
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