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  "thread": {
    "id": 2584,
    "subject": "Gene, meet Geoffrey. Oh, you already know each other.",
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    "first": "2001-04-14T00:35:27+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-14T00:35:27+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0304@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-14T00:35:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gene, meet Geoffrey. Oh, you already know each other.",
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          "text": "I have just finished listening to a series of taped lectures called \n_The Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer_*. Somewhere in this \nseries, the lecturer talks about how Chaucer inserts himself as a \ncharacter, the narrator, in _The Canterbury Tales_. He questions how \nmuch we should believe the narrator and says, \"Chaucer may be the \nfirst unreliable narrator in English literature.\" This gave me quite \na start.\n\nWell, well. Wolfe has an even longer and more distinguished literary \nlegacy than I realized.\n\nWilliam Ansley\n\n*These lectures were given by Professor Seth Lerer and published by \nThe Teaching Company <http://www.teachco.com/>. I thought they were \nquite good, but I had a humanities deprived education. I don't know \nhow much they would have to offer to someone who had already taken a \ncourse on Chaucer."
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