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  "thread": {
    "id": 2711,
    "subject": "Hamster Gong",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-06-30T15:31:33+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-30T15:31:33+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0533@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-30T15:31:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Hamster Gong",
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          "text": "William Ansley --\n\nFirst, I defer to your analysis (and your copy of _Peake's \nProgress_); my impressions were from a copy of _Sometime, \nNever_ that I haven't read in several years."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Actually I knew that _Titus Alone_ was unfinished and that Peake \nintended to have Titus return to Gormenghast eventually. But, the \nbook was published the way it was, with the ending it had. I don't \nsee how I can judge it as what it might have been but wasn't, rather \nthan what it is, a book with a (to me at least) quite unsatisfactory \nending."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Seems to me that there is another option to consider here, which\nis not to judge it as a finished work at all, but on the same\nbasis one might judge the varied texts in (say) the _History of\nMiddle-Earth_ or _Stephen Hero_."
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The fact that TA didn't take place in Gormenghast didn't bother\nme particularly, in fact I rather liked the weird, science-\nfictional,  somewhat Kafkaesque world in which Titus found himself."
        },
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          "text": "Puts you in a definite minority among Peake fans -- most seem to\ndislike the environment of TA (I've known folks who call it\n\"depressing.\" Yeah, like Gormenghast was such a cheery place...)\n\n--Dan'l"
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