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  "thread": {
    "id": 2568,
    "subject": "Late night speculation!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-15T01:38:12+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-15T01:38:12+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0281@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-15T01:38:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Late night speculation!",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Marc A Aramini wrote:\nI  haven't read anything by her (C J Cherryh) even though\nI have a copy of Kutath and Chanur's Legacy lying around\nsomewhere.  Is she worth reading?  If so, is there a good\nplace to start?)"
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          "text": "This is a question which potentially takes us way off-topic, so I will, if I\nmay, give you a brief answer here and respond to you more fully off-list.\n\nYes, C J Cherryh is very much worth reading. \"Downbelow Station\" would be\nthe best place to start.\n\nOthers - let me know if you want see a copy of my more verbose reply to\nMarc.\n\nBit to return to matters more obviously Lupine, and arising from my theory\nthat \"Cherry Jubilee\" is in some measure a Cherryh pastiche...\n\nWolfe loves to pastiche other authors. He's very good at it. He's done\nDickens and he's done Poe, and of course he's done Proust - amongst others.\n\nThematically, he's very interested in his literary works in concepts of\nspiritual possession, of people being possessed by gods, and of the living\nincorporating the personalities of the dead. Severian's mind is also\ninhabited by Thecla, and by the personalities and memories of his\npredecessors as autarch. There are possessions in the \"Soldier\" books, and,\nwell, Long Sun and Short Sun are just full of it. Horn becomes Silk and vice\nversa or perhaps they both become Horn-Silk or - well, I'm still not sure.\n\nBut, I wonder...\n\nIs literary pastiche connected to this interest in any way?\n\nWolfe the author likes to ingest other writer's spirits through reading\ntheir works and then allows their personalities partial reincarnation by\nallowing them to write through him, expressing his thoughts in their style.\nIt would be a very elegant matching of means of composition to content.\nWolfe as the autarchial author; the creator of Severian himself inhabited by\nthe myriad previous literary masters whose works he has studied and whose\nmannerisms he has mastered.\n\nNigel\nMinety, Wilt, England"
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