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  "thread": {
    "id": 2262,
    "subject": "Brother North-wind's Secret REVEALED!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-05-15T23:44:14+00:00",
    "last": "2000-05-15T23:44:14+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0016@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-15T23:44:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Brother North-wind's Secret REVEALED!",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I wrote:\nHow about this one: What's the difference between G. Wolfe and J. \nCrowley? Well, Wolfe would would never come right out and tell you \nwhat Brother North-wind's Secret is, but Crowley does, after pausing \nfor a few pages to keep you in suspense."
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          "text": "Now that I have paused a couple days to keep you all in suspense, \nhere is more detail. Book Two of LB is called \"Brother North-wind's \nSecret\". Chapter II of this Book starts off with several school \nchildren taking turns reading a children's story of the same name. In \nthe story, a Meadow Mouse, who has never seen Winter is questioning \nanimals to find out how to prepare for it. A Crow tells him that one \nthing he needs to know is Brother North-wind's secret, which is the \nanswer to the question, \"What is the one good thing about Winter?\" \nBut the crow won't tell and neither will Brother North-Wind.\n\nBefore the last child can finish the story, just before the secret is \nrevealed, the teacher (Smoky Barnable) interrupts him. So far, so \nLupine. But, only a little over 3 pages later, Smoky recalls the \nanswer (he read the story before): \"If Winter comes, Spring can't be \nfar behind.\"\n\nMy expectation, if this was a Wolfe story, is that the answer would \nbe revealed less directly or at a greater remove from the question or \nnot given at all.This isn't to say that Crowley doesn't have his \nsecrets, there are plenty of ambiguities and mysterious goings-on in \nLB.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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