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  "thread": {
    "id": 2421,
    "subject": "PEACE Birkhead and Elm",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-10-26T15:04:06+00:00",
    "last": "2000-10-26T15:04:06+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0059@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-10-26T15:04:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) PEACE Birkhead and Elm",
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          "text": "What is it with Miss Birkhead? Like Fr. Inire, she is often mentioned but\nseldom seen, in fact only makes one direct appearance in the book, when she\nbrings coffee to Den and Bill Batton and the hairy man shows up (168). Weer\ngives some sort of physical description of almost every woman who appears in\nthe book, even her replacement, Miss Hadow, but not Miss Birkhead. We don't\neven know her age. Weer has a habit of persisting to call women by their\nmaiden names, even after marriage (e.g., Margaret Lorn, Eleanor Bold), which\nis a breach of manners hard to believe from someone of his era, and must\nhave been an annoyance to newlywed women. So it isn't until the book is\nalmost over before we learn that she is in fact not a Miss, but Mrs. Helen\nBirkhead Tyler, with two children and a husband, Ben. Why did Wolfe wait\nthat late to drop that little detail? Why not leave her Miss Birkhead?\n\nDan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\n\n<<Finally, Mantis also asked..."
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          "text": "Since many of the streets have tree names, does this mean\nthat Olivia's house is on \"Elm Street\" (which is not one of\nthe given street names) and the other streets have their\nname trees along them, too?"
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          "text": "<<I _sincerely_ hope not. If so, the China Pillow interpretation\nbecomes irresistable, so we can say that it was all a dream...\nor rather a Nightmare...>>\n\nWell, not to belabor the point, but when Den gives us the layout of\nCassionsville he writes: \"The north-south streets are all named for trees:\nOak, Chestnut, Willow, Elder, Apple, Plum, and Sumac. And others.\" That\ntwo-word sentence stands out, and given the importance of the elm in PEACE,\nit is conspicuous by its absence. Also, the library, Vi's old house, is in\nthe ELmwood phone exchange. (162) (I'm surprised someone hasn't tried to\nmake something of those three phone numbers.)\n\nRoy"
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