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  "thread": {
    "id": 2266,
    "subject": "Mr. Wolfe and Mrs. Byrne",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-05-19T17:03:08+00:00",
    "last": "2000-05-19T17:03:08+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0023@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-19T17:03:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Mr. Wolfe and Mrs. Byrne",
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          "text": "For me, one of the continuing joys of the New Sun books is the\nmuch-commented-upon use of archaic words.  Wolfe himself has written\nabout this (CASTLE OF THE OTTER) and indeed, our own Michael A-D has\nprovided us with his remarkable Lexicon, an ingenious and fascinating\nseries of writings about the Book of the New Sun in the form of a\ndictionary.  \n\nMy own personal and professional interest in words, dictionaries and\nlexicography has often led me to seek out unusual collections of words\nand one of the best I've come across is Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary by\nJosefa Heifetz Byrne, the daughter of violinist Jascha Heifetz.\n\nThe number of \"Lupine\" words in the book is quite astonishing.  I've\nbeen compiling a list of them, which I'll post at some point, but it\nincludes some of my favorites, such as \"paracoita\" and \"hierodule\".\nThere are enough Lupine terms that given the book's popularity, with\nnumerous printings (it's still in print now in fact), I would have to\nassume that Wolfe knows the book quite well.  A search through the\nURTH archives indicates that one or two other folks (including the\nesteemed Mr. Andre-Driussi) have mentioned it, but no one else seems\nto have mentioned the extent of the debt that Wolfe owes Mrs. Byrne.\n\nLex Shellac"
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