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  "thread": {
    "id": 2496,
    "subject": "Thrilling Wonder Story",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-12-08T16:11:11+00:00",
    "last": "2000-12-08T16:11:11+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0176@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-12-08T16:11:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Thrilling Wonder Story",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nBut notice that Wolfe, while he write about stories being told,\ntelling themselves, etc., never (AFAIK) does the kind of\nmetafictional introduction of himself that Barth does "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Alec, may I refer you to \"The Last Thrilling Wonder Story\" or\n\"The Sister's Tale\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "No, no, no.  The author who threatens the hero in \"Wonder Story\" is just\nanother character, he's not Gene Wolfe himself.  It's a story about a\nwriter whose story gets away from him.  Wolfe is obviously on the side of\nthe hero.  Would Gene Wolfe be angry at one of his characters for praying?\nAnd retaliate by throwing the devil at him?\n\nIt's a very different feel from, say, Breakfast of Champions, where\nVonnegut really inserts *himself* into the story, imagines a conversation\nwith his protagonist, considers the idea that he, Kurt Vonnegut, is\nresponsible for what happens to his characters, and tells us how he feels\nabout it.\n\nAlas, I don't remember \"The Sister's Tale.\"   Which collection is it in?\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
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