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  "thread": {
    "id": 2410,
    "subject": "Memory house",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-10-20T23:55:50+00:00",
    "last": "2000-10-20T23:55:50+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0038@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-10-20T23:55:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Memory house",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "mantis's wrote:\nObviously this is a book about books, and we could list all of the books\nmentioned, alluded to, read from, et cetera."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes' wrote: (Excellent post, btw!)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Weer definitely built a house in life. He probably even built some\n\"memory rooms\" (which explains the \"architect\" comment)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "To which Adam Stephanides replied:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "That had been my impression on reading the book, but in his interview\nwith Jim Jordan (on Paul Duggan's Wolfe site) Wolfe denied this: \"I wanted\nto do the rooms that were recreations and rooms that he had known as a\nvery young man and I didn't think that anybody would actually do that.\nThat it had to be a supernatural stick [sic] or a mental quirk or\nsomething of that sort.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And Dave Lebling asked:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Has the gang of three looked into the relationship of the Chinese tale to\nthe overall story? It seems to me that that story (sorry, I'm at work,\ndetails will be sketchy) provides a possible explanation for Olivia's\nvoice over the intercom. That is, just as in the fable, Weer lives or\ndreams his entire life, seeing the consequences of the choices he makes,\nand then at the end Olivia wakes him to live it all over again as a wiser\nman. I don't see the point of including that story unless it speaks to\nsomething else in the novel, as all the other included tales do. What is\nits relevance to the novel, unless it is that?"
        },
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          "text": "Then we have Den saying to Lois (and this right after learning that banker\nBlaine's old mansion no longer existed): \"There's a house in town I'd like\nto own, but I wouldn't want to move away from Cassionsville.\" (page 179,\nBerkley pb.) Now what house would that be? He had already owned (and sold)\nhis mother's house. There was only one other house in town mentioned in his\nstories--his aunt Olivia's, then the town's library, a house of books. When\nhe became president of Smart's company he had the money to buy it and build\nthe town a new library.\n\nHe describes his aunt's house as having \"rambling walls that never ran\nstraight for more than one room at a stretch\" (p.40), and in his\nmuseum-roomed house there is \"the smaller of the halls, the crooked one\"\n(p.135), and \"Down the corridor and through my aunt Olivia's solarium\"\n(p.79). There is a flower garden on one side of the room he wakes up in on\nthe first page, as there was on one side of his aunt's house. Could it be?\nHis memory mansion superimposed on the house where he was living for much of\nthe time period covered by the book? Where he in fact heard his aunt's voice\nsaying \"Den, darling, are you awake in there?\"\n\nRoy"
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