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  "thread": {
    "id": 2953,
    "subject": "Harold Bloom's tastes",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-02-11T21:58:43+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-11T21:58:43+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-137@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-11T21:58:43+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Harold Bloom's tastes",
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          "text": "Marc Aramini wrote:\nIf Bloom praises Crowley\nand David Lindsay so highly, I can only imagine he would not dismiss Wolfe\nout\nof hand if he read his work (as he dismisses, say, Dorris Lessing).  Alga,\ndidn't you have some vague connection with Bloom at one time? (sorry if I\nmisremembered that).  Foist Wolfe on him."
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          "text": "My strong impression is that Bloom enjoys Lindsay and Crowley so very much\nbecause their work (well . . . A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS, let us say, since I've\nnever seen Bloom mention any other Lindsay but I would bet that he has read\nat least a few others, if not all of them) is so unambiguously Gnostic.\n\nAs such, he would probably not like Gene Wolfe's fiction, even ambiguously\nsemi-Gnostic works such as TBOTNS.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
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