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  "thread": {
    "id": 2752,
    "subject": "Narnia/TAD [Digest urth.v030.n159]",
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    "first": "2001-08-02T14:00:45+00:00",
    "last": "2001-08-02T14:00:45+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0592@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-08-02T14:00:45+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Narnia/TAD [Digest urth.v030.n159]",
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          "text": "Personally, of the Narnia books I prefer _The_Magician's_Nephew_,\nbecause it has that wonderful vision of a dying world, and because\nthe Empress castigates the English, \"You treat your slaves poorly\",\nto which they reply \"But they aren't slaves\".  That exchange could\nmake a middle-class child of the time _think_ about the status of\nthe working class.\n\nBut which ever book is your favorite, they're clearly in the short\nlist of \"possible best juvenile fantasy of the 1900s\".\n\nIn _There_Are_Doors_, the death-after-intercourse requires that\nall women either bear twins or triplets or store semen for later\npregnacies (as many insects do).  Otherwise the species dies out.\nHow you would evolve such a system is hard to figure out, and\nthere's no implication that _this_ is how mammals work in this\nworld.\n\nThe evolutionary wierdness of the idea, coupled with the non-wierdness\nof it as one psychotic's belief about sexuality, seemed to me to be\na hint that the \"hero\" is _not_ in such a world--he's in our world,\nbut he is insane.\n\n\t-John Bishop"
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