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    "id": 2364,
    "subject": "Re Jim Russell on Wolfe's Politics",
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    "first": "2000-08-19T21:45:39+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0179@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Talarican",
        "address": "exultnttalarican at mindspring.com"
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      "date": "2000-08-19T21:45:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re Jim Russell on Wolfe's Politics",
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          "text": "<quote>\nFrom: Jim Russell <J.A.Russell at exeter.ac.uk>\nSubject: Another tangent\nDate: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:21:41 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)\n...\nWhat would you guys say is GW's political stance? What is he, where is he\ncoming from?...At the moemtn I only really know what he is against, not what\nhe is for.\n<unquote>\n\nWe can think of two intriguing passages which might conceivably be construed\nto shed light (or more obfuscation) upon this topic.\n\nAt the end of _Sword_, there is an appendix entitled \"A Note on Provincial\nAdministration\", written, you will note, by Mr. Wolfe, not Severian, the\nfirst paragraph of which observes that the American concept of \"separation\nof powers\" legislative, judicial, and executive, does not seem to exist in\nthe Commonwealth.   Our intrepid translator interjects this editorial\nobservation: \"[Officers of the Commonwealth] would consider such a system\nunworkable, as indeed it is proving to be.\" Is Wolfe weighing in against\nseparation of powers? That hasn't been an _overt_ political issue that we've\nheard of.\n\nFor the other example, we must draw upon our nonSeverianlike memory to\nrecall an exchange recorded in \"V.R.T.\" in 5HC, wherein \"Dr. Marsch\" (Victor\nTrenchard) and one of the interrogating officers of St. Croix get into a\ndebate about the morality of slavery, outlawed on St. Anne, but upon which\nSt. Croix' economy is based. If we recall correctly, the officer pointed out\nthat slaves get their needs provided for by the masters, to which V.R.T.\nreplies something about medical services and so forth being provided free to\npoor people on Earth (which evidently is a welfare state) by the government,\nto which the officer retorts \"Then you know who their owners are.\"\n\nIf we ever get around to writing a book systematically debunking the big\nsugar daddy pork barrel welfare state, we'll certainly want to use that\nexchange as a lead-in quote in the pivotal chapter. It has been our\nimpression, ever since reading 5HC, that Mr. Wolfe leans toward fiscal\nconservatism, at least.\n\nBut then again, we exultants seldom concern ourselves with such things so\nlong as our peasants bring in their quotas, and those officious gadflies\nfrom the House Absolute, with whom our autarch sees fit endlessly to afflict\nus, deign to attend to their own business rather than ours..."
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