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  "thread": {
    "id": 2200,
    "subject": "the outfit",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-04-19T12:21:22+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-19T12:21:22+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0916@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "DAnger4444",
        "address": "danger4444 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-19T12:21:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: the outfit",
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          "text": "Another question: what is the historical basis (if any) for our\nconception of how a torturer looks?  In other words, from whence comes\nthe image of the bare-chested masked torturer?\nLex Shellac"
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          "text": "Wolfe himself remarked that the whole book came out of the idea to dress \nas a character in a fantasy novel for one of those big sci-fi \nconventions. The outfit intrigued him ( I don't know where he got the \nimage, though), and the novel grew out of that. Sounds a bit coy, but in \nart, so much can come out of so little. Wolfe was obviously having \nthoughts in this direction anyway...\nDA"
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