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  "thread": {
    "id": 2761,
    "subject": "Another Ghastly Groan",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-08-03T23:14:24+00:00",
    "last": "2001-08-03T23:14:24+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0605@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-08-03T23:14:24+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Another Ghastly Groan",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "The new NYRSF presents, from one Henry Wessells, citing a biography of\nMervyn Peake by G. Peter Winnington, the fact that Peake (1911-1968)\nspent nine of his first eleven years in China: \"Parallels between the\nearly life of the Boy-Emperor and Titus Groan as recounted in the first\ntwo of Mervyn's novels are numerous and striking.\"\n\nNow I find that most intriguing. I was born in China, myself, but most\nof what I know about the Boy-Emperor is from Bertolucci's fascinating\nfilm. And now I think I see the weakness of the TV adaptation--it wasn't\nnearly weird *enough* with regard to Titus. The British character actors\nwere really brilliant and off the wall, but every time it paused to\nfocus on Titus it got snoresome (I was watching it in the wee hours) and\nI could hardly wait for someone, nearly anyone, else to appear. The\nmovie, was, of course, paced and presented so very differently that it\nis hard to compare the productions, but what I remember is a great deal\nof weirdness in the treatment of the B-E's upbringing that might have\npepped up the TV show. Perhaps this approach was deemed too kinky, and\nmaybe that's true if it was envisioned as \"family fare.\" (The Addams\nFamily perhaps?)\n\n-alga"
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