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  "thread": {
    "id": 2196,
    "subject": "Three Fingers",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-04-17T10:50:15+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-17T10:50:15+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0908@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-17T10:50:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Three Fingers",
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          "text": "I initially thought Wolfe had a cool idea here, pointing out the irony of\nDisney vigorously protecting the rights to characters that they've swiped\nfrom better sources and humanity's common story-telling tradition.\n\nBut then I'm led to ask that if Captain Hook is just a watered-down\nversion of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd and Barbarosa, then shouldn't the\nhero of this story be someone who is a dealer in Blackbeard stories and\nCaptain Kidd paraphernalia?  Or conversely, if Mickey Mouse and Snow White\nare sufficiently distinguished from their literary ancestors to be worth\nstealing, it's a little less ironic when Disney objects to the theft.\n\nI enjoy the ending more if I read it as Wolfe wanting us to imagine that\nthe \"it's all just an insane hallucination\" bit was tacked on by the\neditor to avoid trouble from Disney's lawyers.\n\n-Rostrum"
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