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    "id": 2792,
    "subject": "Lupine Aesthetic [Digest urth.v030.n171]",
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    "first": "2001-08-20T15:52:16+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0649@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-08-20T15:52:16+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Lupine Aesthetic [Digest urth.v030.n171]",
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          "text": "Nigel, et al:\n\nI think there's another point about the mysteries to be\nmade.\n\nWe get both hard ones and easy ones.  This is (I think) a\ndeliberate strategy on Wolfe's part, to get us hooked on\nlooking for mysteries and then to get us to look for deeper\nand deeper ones.\n\nThus in \"Peace\", the faking of the \"Necronomicon\" is not\nvery deeply buried, and is easily caught.  It's also funny.\nSo the reader is rewarded for noticing it, and encouraged\nto look for more \"easter eggs\", as such things are called\nin the software business.  Aha, the name of the orange\njuice substitute is \"Tang\"!  That was harder but funnier.\nAnd so on.\n\nThe end goal of this sequence of mysteries is, I suspect,\nto get us to see the whole work as a clue to a bigger,\nunsolved Mystery-with-a-Captial-M.  \"As below, so above\",\nbut this last one is left unsolved because the point is\nthat Life is a Mystery, in the religious sense (and also\nin the process vs. result sense).\n\nC.f. the end of the \"Shadow\" trilogy: the whole world is\nholy, which makes no literal sense (how can the whole\nworld be marked off as special?), but makes good spiritual\nsense (all that is created bears the creator's imprint).\n\nDid I once mention Mozart in this connection?  A musician\nexplained to me that interesting music is one which has a\npattern we can hear but can't hear at once; since any audience\nhas listeners of different skills, good music has patterns\nat several different levels of difficulty.  Mozart is \napparently a master at offering many such levels.\n\n\t-John Bishop"
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