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  "thread": {
    "id": 2981,
    "subject": "hides the universe",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-02-23T01:40:29+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-23T01:40:29+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-208@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-23T01:40:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) hides the universe",
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          "text": "Two things:\n\nFirst, for Steve and William: Thanks for at least keeping my theories in mind, \nguys.  I really DID put a lot of thought and time into them, so of course I'm \ngoing to seem somewhat sure of them.  I also kept the most obsessively \ncomplete notes, cross referencing mundane things like wind, horns, trees, \nsticks and just about anything else I could think of. After obsessing, you \nwould like to think there is some validity to your hard work.  If you read the \ntext again, watch out for those weird meta-comments on the text where he talks \nabout Urth and Blue having the same sky, where he talks about how he can't \ntell \"you\" where the vanished people came from because it would be better if \nyou figured it out for yourself, where he mentions how horrified he was when \nhe realized the island was made of big trees, and how he emphasizes \"don't \nconcentrate on my words, not the words on the page, to understand me\" at one \npoint in Return to the Whorl. And that scene where he scales the cliff with \none hand on green while fighting off the inhumu makes so much more sense if \nyou think of it as a scene with moon gravity.  And if they are somewhat \nvegetative, it might make their survival more believable if they can jump \nthrough outerspace from place to place (like the tree ship Yggdrasil).\n\nSecondly, I was also confused about the statement in the interview which said \nthe white hole in the sun hides the universe.  Did he mean \"save\"? How has it \nbecome hidden? (Besides maybe Urth being hidden as Blue and covered in water). \nDoes anybody have any insights into this statement?\n\nAlso, Wolfe keeps claiming There are Doors is his favorite novel.  Maybe I \nshould give that one a close, close reading.  I haven't found any of the \"text \ntransforming\" connections that definitely abound in Peace, The Fifth Head of \nCerberus, and The Book of the New and Short Suns (at least for me, in the last \ncase; I think we pretty much agree on the other novels having subtle points \nthat transform the whole story). Someone has proposed that There are Doors is \nactually a 1st person novel written by someone with a dissassociative \ndisorder.  I wonder. It seems as if he has put so much more esoteric research \ninto the New Sun and the Soldier books, and it seems like they would have been \nmuch harder to write and much more satisfying to finish.  I wonder why he \nlikes that one so much. Is it just the theme? Or has he accomplished a \ntechnical triumph we (or at least I) have not yet fully recognized?  He IS \ntricky, after all.\n\nMarc Aramini"
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