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  "thread": {
    "id": 236,
    "subject": "Wolfe's humor",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-10-24T14:34:54+00:00",
    "last": "1997-10-24T15:59:55+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0005-0357@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "adam louis stephanides",
        "address": "astephan at students.uiuc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-10-24T14:34:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe's humor",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Fri, 24 Oct 1997 urth-errors at lists.best.com wrote:\nFrom: \"Tony Ellis\" <tellis at futurenet.co.uk>\nSubject: Re: The Quiet Urth"
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          "kind": "quote",
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          "text": "Yes, Wolfe is a Catholic, but he is\nalso a polymath, and a terrible punster, and I find plenty of double\nmeanings and conceits in his stories that have nothing to do\nwith Christian themes."
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          "text": "This reminds me of a topic that I've long been intending to bring up:\nWolfe's humor.  Most of Wolfe's work strikes me as utterly solemn\n(though there are undoubtedly things I'm missing); and his overtly\nhumorous stories have, in my opinion, a lower proportion of successes\nthan most of the other stuff he tries his hand at.  But I do like\nthe humorous short stories \"Car Sinister\" (though I suspect I\nmay be a minority in this) and \"An Article about Hunting.\" And \"For-\nlesen,\" one of my favorites too, is full of dark humor of the sort\nthat Kafka was so good at.  Anybody have any other favorites?\n\n--Adam"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0005-0359@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-10-24T15:59:55+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Wolfe's humor",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0005-0357@digest.urth.net>",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, adam louis stephanides wrote:\nThis reminds me of a topic that I've long been intending to bring up:\nWolfe's humor.  Most of Wolfe's work strikes me as utterly solemn\n(though there are undoubtedly things I'm missing); and his overtly\nhumorous stories have, in my opinion, a lower proportion of successes\nthan most of the other stuff he tries his hand at.  But I do like\nthe humorous short stories \"Car Sinister\" (though I suspect I\nmay be a minority in this) and \"An Article about Hunting.\" And \"For-\nlesen,\" one of my favorites too, is full of dark humor of the sort\nthat Kafka was so good at.  Anybody have any other favorites?"
        },
        {
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          "text": "If found FREE LIVE FREE very humorous, but it's been too long to single\nout a particular passage.  I thought THERE ARE DOORS has some funny bits\ntoo (particularly G. Gordon Liddy).\n\n-Rostrum"
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