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  "thread": {
    "id": 2169,
    "subject": "Of Flagging Talent and Fairies",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-03-28T16:35:37+00:00",
    "last": "2000-03-29T00:09:03+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0868@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Christy",
        "address": "cglst7+ at pitt.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-28T16:35:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Of Flagging Talent and Fairies",
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          "text": "Hello Urth list, I have a question for you:\n\nI've just finished *Strange Travelers* with \"The Ziggurat,\" and have been\ngenerally dissatisfied with the content (does anyone else here feel the\nsame? I haven't picked that up), save for the adaptation of \"Koschei the\nDeathless.\" I feel the list is well-suited to answer the question-- what\nis the deal with Andrew Lang's fairy books? Could you spell it out for\nthis hapless Yankee? I know there is a long, colorful series never to be\nreferenced by Borges-- are they good, one moreso than the next, order, is\nthere a big boxed set the likes of which I can pick up in the Qesque shelf\nabove all the regular pulpy fiction? I feel like not knowing about Lang is\nlike a hole in my life.\n\n\n\nChristy"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0869@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-29T00:09:03+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Of Flagging Talent and Fairies",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0868@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Christy wrote:\n\nHello Urth list, I have a question for you:\n\nI've just finished *Strange Travelers* with \"The Ziggurat,\" and have been\ngenerally dissatisfied with the content (does anyone else here feel the\nsame? I haven't picked that up), save for the adaptation of \"Koschei the\nDeathless.\" I feel the list is well-suited to answer the question-- what\nis the deal with Andrew Lang's fairy books? Could you spell it out for\nthis hapless Yankee? I know there is a long, colorful series never to be\nreferenced by Borges-- are they good, one moreso than the next, order, is\nthere a big boxed set the likes of which I can pick up in the Qesque shelf\nabove all the regular pulpy fiction? I feel like not knowing about Lang is\nlike a hole in my life."
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          "text": "Christy,\n\nIt's interesting that you should write this. I was just thinking along\nthe same lines. I didn't enjoy _Strange Travelers_ nearly as much as\nWolfe's earlier collections. I think it's less a matter of \"flagging\ntalent\" than that Wolfe is putting more of his energy into his novels\nand less into his short stories. I suspect that he continues to write at\nshorter lengths because he can express ideas that wouldn't fit into his\nnovels. But I feel he is becoming overly self-indulgent in his short\nworks. In his earlier collections there were a considerably higher\npercentage of stories that could be enjoyed without first having to be decoded.\n\n\"The Death of Koschei the Deathless\" was my favorite story, too. As far\nas Lang's Fairy books go, I highly enjoyed all I have read, and I have\nread several. I really don't remember exactly how many it was and some\nof them I read long ago, but I recently started re-reading them on-line.\nYou can find most of them if you do a search on \"lang andrew\" at the\nOn-Line Books Page <http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/>.\n\nIf you don't like reading lengthy texts on a computer screen, most of\nthe Fairy books seem to be in print. I saw at least a dozen titles on\nAmazon.com. Try your favorite on-line bookseller or Bookfinder.com\n<http://www.bookfinder.com/> if you want to try used copies. I don't\nknow of any boxed set, but it is certainly a good idea; if I find that\nsuch a thing is available, I'll let you know.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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