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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2544",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 2544,
    "subject": "cover art",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-01-16T12:40:19+00:00",
    "last": "2001-01-16T12:40:19+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0248@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-01-16T12:40:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) cover art",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicholas=20Gevers?= <vermoulian at yahoo.com>\nMillennium UK has now released its edition of SWORD\nAND CITADEL, the second half of THE BOOK OF THE NEW\nSUN. The cover is again by Jim Burns, in my opinion\nquite an acceptable treatment. What do others think?\n(It should be up on amazon.co.uk.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Hurm, I still like the Pennington (original UK) covers best.  But why\nis it so hard for artists to draw a fuligin cloak?  You'd think it\nwould be easy, but these artists always insist on making it look like\nit's made of something shiny and reflective.  And they can't seem to\nresist putting a shirt on him.  I'm not looking for a Frazetta Conan\nhere, but the first impression should be of the \"classic torturer\",\nusually depicted topless (see \"The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins\" by\nDr. Seuss for a good example of the type, and come to think of it, an\nearly example of the \"compassionate torturer\" (urgh, that sounds a bit\nlike GWB, sorry)).\n\nI have yet to see any artist really do Wolfe's vision justice.  The US\ncovers for the Long Sun books are probably the most accurate,\nespecially since Wolfe claims no knowledge of how big the Whorl is\nsupposed to actually be, so no one can really complain if the skylands\nseem too close or too far.\n\nLex"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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