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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2207",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 2207,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v028.n191",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-04-26T13:58:16+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-26T17:45:24+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0931@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Patri10629",
        "address": "patri10629 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-26T17:45:24+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v028.n191",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "FYI: Frank Kermode is refering to the ending of Julian Barnes Magnificent and hilarious novel STARING AT THE SUN.I doubt it is a reference to Severian.The context doesn't suggest that. Though I have no idea who the caddie is meant to be literature-wise.\n\nPatrick O'Leary\n\n\n \"The British novelist Julian Barnes allows an old-style heaven, the one that\n lingers on in the popular imagination, with harps, crowns and nightshirts for\n those who want it, but declares that it is going out of fashion. The new\n heaven is a more democratic, laid-back affair, a sort of limited monarchy\n where the titular head of state does not attempt to interfere and there is\n \"pleasure every way.\" One can have the perfect breakfast three times a\n day, with as much sex and golf as desired. (His hero has a caddie called\n Severiano, a little joke for the cognoscenti.)....\"\n\n Do we have any of the cognoscenti here? I am completely at a loss. Is it a golf joke? An opera joke (Severiano sounds like an opera name)? A literary\n joke? \n\n -alga"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0932@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at crossover.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-26T13:58:16+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v028.n191",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0931@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 01:45 PM 4/26/00 EDT, Patrick wrote:\nFYI: Frank Kermode is refering to the ending of Julian Barnes Magnificent\nand >hilarious novel STARING AT THE SUN. I doubt it is a reference to\nSeverian.\nThe context doesn't suggest that. Though I have no idea who the caddie is \nmeant to be literature-wise."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Google turns up one significant \"Severiano\"--Severiano Ballesteros is a\nprofessional golfer, \"the most successful player in the history of Spanish\ngolf\", according to one site. "
        },
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://www.nyrsf.com"
        }
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