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  "thread": {
    "id": 2937,
    "subject": "Hyacinth and Silk",
    "messages": 2,
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    "first": "2002-02-08T06:49:09+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-08T07:09:26+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-106@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
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      "date": "2002-02-08T07:09:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Hyacinth and Silk",
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          "text": "I think, just as Gevers suggests Wolfe is deconstructing all the other\ngenres in BotLS, he is having a hack at profane love as not (necessarily)\nbeing a solution to the existential questions.  I am reminded explicitly\nof _Of Human Bondage_.\n\n| David Duffy.                                                     ,-_|\\\n| email: davidD at qimr.edu.au  ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101    /     *\n| Epidemiology Unit, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research \\_,-._/\n| 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia                 v"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-107@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andy Robertson",
        "address": "andywrobertson at clara.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-08T06:49:09+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Hyacinth and Silk",
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          "text": "From: \"David Duffy\" <davidD at qimr.edu.au>\nI think, just as Gevers suggests Wolfe is deconstructing all the other\ngenres in BotLS, he is having a hack at profane love as not (necessarily)\nbeing a solution to the existential questions.  I am reminded explicitly\nof _Of Human Bondage_."
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          "text": "So how does that relate to the \"false-but-deeply-felt humanity\" of the\ninhumi, and its equivalent sexuality?\n\nIs Hyacinth the converse of Jahlee: a blood-drinking reptile trapped in the\nbody of a beautiful woman?   A human being with an inhumi's soul?\n\n    hartshorn\n\n\n."
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