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  "thread": {
    "id": 2263,
    "subject": "Quiet around here",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-05-18T17:58:41+00:00",
    "last": "2000-05-19T08:55:33+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0017@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jonathan Laidlow",
        "address": "laidlojm at hhs.bham.ac.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-18T17:58:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Quiet around here",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Hi folks,\n\n[waits for tumbleweed to drift by]\n\nYou'e all gone quiet so I'll ask a daft question.\n\nOne of the articles in the recent NYRSF Gene Wolfe special, Paul \nWitcover's essay-review of 'Strange Travelers', suggests that:\n\n\"Wolfe - whose futures owe as much to the visions of William Blake \nas to those of Jack Vance - sees the world as a kind fo relic, a work \nof art designed by a perfect and loving engineer whose purpose, \ninsofar as human beings can discern it, is to afford us the \nopportunity to perceive the beauty and meaning with which (and for \nour benefit), this work of art, the world, has been invested.\"\n\nIt's the Blake idea that I like. Now I don't know much about Blake - \nhave read a bit of Ackroyd's recent bio, read a few of the poems \nand looked at the colour facsimiles available, so I can't really \ncomment on whether its an accurate statement.\n\nWould anyone like to?\n\nJonathan\nVisit Ultan's Library - A Gene Wolfe web resource\nhttp://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/index.htm\n(no updates for a while - coming soon)\nJonathan Laidlow\nUniversity of Birmingham, UK"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0018@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-19T08:55:33+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Quiet around here",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0029-0017@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Thu, 18 May 2000, Jonathan Laidlow wrote:\nIt's the Blake idea that I like. Now I don't know much about Blake - \nhave read a bit of Ackroyd's recent bio, read a few of the poems \nand looked at the colour facsimiles available, so I can't really \ncomment on whether its an accurate statement."
        },
        {
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          "text": "For those interested in Blake, there is a fantastic Blake archive on the\nweb with lots of pictures of his engravings here:\n\nhttp://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    }
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