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  "thread": {
    "id": 2583,
    "subject": "Props to Ultan's Library, also Death and the Maiden",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-12T17:27:01+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-12T17:27:01+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0303@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-12T17:27:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Props to Ultan's Library, also Death and the Maiden",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ultan's Apprentice writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I'd like to announce that Ultan's Library, the webpage\ncontaining articles and reviews of GW's work has been\nupdated (finally!). It should be easier on the eyes\nnow, but we also have a new article by Jeremy\nCrampton. Please take a look.\n\nURL:\nhttp://www.english.bham.ac.uk/ultan"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Great stuff, as always.  I haven't fully absorbed Jeremy Crampton's\narticle yet, but it seems fascinating, complete with completely\nnon-gratuitous quotes from Foucault ;-)\n\nJeremy's topic reminds me that I saw an interesting film recently with\nvaguely Wolfean overtones: Death and the Maiden, based on a play by\nthe very odd Ariel Dorfman.  It features a healer who may also be a\ntorturer with much discussion of the ways that one can become the\nother, several unreliable witnesses and an unsatisfying, ambiguous\nending.  Sigourney Weaver is quite good as a woman in an unnamed South\nAmerican country who was tortured as a political prisoner (for\n\"confessional\" reasons, though our tortuer, who takes pleasure in his\nwork, seems to have something of Gurloes in him too).  It's rather\nmelodramatic and much of it is prickly and uncomfortable, but I found\nit quite compelling nonetheless even with its faults.  Your mileage\nmay vary.\n\nShellac"
        }
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