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  "thread": {
    "id": 2185,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v028.n178",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-04-08T19:44:30+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-10T09:20:10+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0892@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigelprice1 at compuserve.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-08T19:44:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Digest urth.v028.n178",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Tony Ellis wrote:\nI've got as far as 1-2-3 For Me. I'd just like to say that I agree 101%\nwith William H. Ansley's view that this is a ghost story, pure and\nsimple. In particular it's an M.R. Jamesian ghost story, and I was a\nlittle surprised to see no one else suggest this connection. For me\nthere's a definite sly wink in the direction of James's classic \"Oh\nWhistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad!\" Especially when you compare the\ntwo titles: Wolfe's reads like a deliberately cheeky, modernistic\nresponse to the Master. Why whistle, when you can tone-dial?"
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          "text": "Um...is it OK if I point out that back on the 14th of March, I wrote to\nthis list to say:\n\n        Has anyone else suggested yet that \"One-Two-Three for Me\" \n        is in some rather tenuous respects a science-fictional retelling of\n\n        M R James' classic ghost story, \"Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you,\nmy lad\"?  \n        Instead of the antique whistle in James' story, the vindictive\n\"ghost\" is \n        summoned by a call on an ancient cell phone, and instead of a thing\nof \n        wind and cloth, the \"ghost\" is a drug dealer.  Both stories feature\nminor \n        excavation and archaeology, and if the titles aren't really that\nsimilar, \n        they do at least share the common feature of being the sinisterly \n        seductive promises of the mysterious evil figures summoned in each\nstory.\n\nSo, yes, Tony, I'm with you all the way on this one!\n\nNigel (who is horribly hairy, though sadly not as skeletal as once was, and\nseen only fleetingly on the list these days...)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0893@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-10T09:20:10+00:00",
      "subject": "re: (urth) Digest urth.v028.n178",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0892@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Oops, sorry Nigel! I've only read as far as 1-2-3 so I had to pick my\nway through all the Strange Travelers posts with my eyes squidged half\nshut. I must have missed yours.\n\nOh well, if we can both arrive at the same conclusion independently, we\nmust be on to something. :-)\n\nTony (who is horribly skeletal, though sadly not as hairy as he once\nwas...)"
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