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  "thread": {
    "id": 2356,
    "subject": "JC in the mantis universe",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-08-17T07:20:11+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-17T07:20:11+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0170@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "pei047 at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-17T07:20:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) JC in the mantis universe",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Mantis wrote:\nWhile I recognize that I really should not even mention it, since\nclearly I\nam in a different universe than John Crowley and possibly everybody\nelse,\nyet still, I keep coming back to this one tiny bit in the baffling\ninterview of John Crowley:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "It's a drawback since I'm very prolific and I don't need to do that"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Now, \"prolific\" is not a word I would ever associate with John\nCrowley.  I\ndon't mean that in a mean-spirited way at all.\n\nBecause it seems so wildly at variance with my sense of things, at\nfirst\nsnort I took it to be ironic (and the word \"prolific\" should therefore\nbe\nin italics); but then I saw that it might be \"cloaked irony,\" that is,\nCrowley is channeling Reynard the Fox (what, again?!) and telling\noutrageous tales with a straight face (to see how far he can go, or\njust to\nmess with people's minds, who can say?).  But then I realized that he\nis\nmost likely telling the simple truth."
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          "text": "I think I can enlarge on that. Remember that Crowley has a day job too.\nUnlike that of most novelists, it involves writing. He is a specialist\nin providing narrative to documentary films, a job that involves a good\ndeal of analysis. He told me that he seems to hold a niche in working\nwith women filmmakers, who are often working with minuscule budgets\nagainst great odds. In fact, the most touching and sweet and Smoky-esque\nthing he ever said to me (I don't have it on tape) was on the order of,\n\"Sometimes I think the reason I was put on this earth is to be of aid to\nthese women.\"\n\nI think he really does mean that he writes easily. I asked him at one\npoint if he considered the AEgypt series a sort of hobby, and he denied\nit. But, personally, I think it sort of is. It's disastrously\nuncommercial, it's taken more than 20 years of his life, parts of it\n(Pierce's childhood in Kentucky in L&S) are nearly straight\nautobiography and we may guess that some of the rest is too, though I\ndon't know that JC would own up to it. (Tell me what you think, mantis,\nof what I suspect: that JC's little joke, having given Loren, who is\nbased on T.H. White, his own appearance, he has then given Pierce\nLancelot's appearance, from The Ill-Made Knight--much is made of how\nungainly Pierce is.)\n\n-alga"
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