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  "thread": {
    "id": 2880,
    "subject": "The Best Introduction to the Mountains",
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    "first": "2002-01-03T00:14:55+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n023.6@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice K. Turner",
        "address": "aturner3 at nyc.rr.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-01-03T00:14:55+00:00",
      "subject": "The Best Introduction to the Mountains",
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          "text": "Thank you, Andy Robertson, for sending the URL. Here it is, for those who,\nlike me, may have missed it.\nhttp://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/docindex.html\n\nI can venture a guess as to why the essay was turned down for Karen Haber's\nanthology. It doesn't hang together. Part of it, the part where Wolfe tells\nus about his first reading of the trilogy and his correspnondence with\nTolkien is very intense, focussed and joyful, rather like Keats looking at\nChapman's Homer. I gather that the anthology is mostly composed of\nenthusiastic pieces like this, perhaps not so well done, but certainly\npretty much in the same key. But the rest of the essay strikes a note of\ndisgruntled, archly worded old-fartism that I found annoying and I imagine\nshe did too (or perhaps it was her editor). I don't think it's a defense of\nfeudalism exactly, but it's certainly right-wing in the belief that people\nshould know and appreciate their places and wrk hard at their appointed\ntasks. I've just been reading a book about British upper-class Fascist\nfeelings (and approval of Hitler, who knew how things should be) prior to\nWWII, and this essay chimes in rather too well.\n\n-alga"
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