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  "thread": {
    "id": 2987,
    "subject": "\"The Blue Mouse\"",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-02-24T01:09:09+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-24T01:09:09+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-216@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-24T01:09:09+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"The Blue Mouse\"",
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          "text": "I was looking for something else at a cavernous used bookstore. A Bova\nanthology popped up, and it had the Gene Wolfe story \"The Blue Mouse\" in\nit.  Reading the first page I couldn't remember reading it before, so I\nread the whole thing.  Then I bought the book (hardcover $3), supposing\nthat there was a slight chance it was one of those uncollected stories (or\none I had in magazine form, or best of all, one I did not have at all).\n\nWell of course it is in GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS (aka CASTLE OF DAYS).\n\nAnyway, I can see why I didn't remember it: it has some \"Packerhouse\nMethod\" and \"Many Mansion\" elements to it that would easily befuddle my\nwormwood software.  (I might even have lumped it in with \"HORARS of War.\")\n\nStill, we've been talking about \"Hour of Trust,\" so it is an interesting\ncase of comparision and contrast.\n\nThe setting appears to be a United Kingdom undergoing internal conflict.\nThe hero is an American member of a UN army \"Peace Force\" there to put down\nthe insurrection that threatens to bring back nationalism and war.  When\nasked his country of origin, he says \"Sector ten . . . South of nine, close\nto the Great Lakes.\"  (But this may be more obfuscating jargon than natural\ntalk.)\n\nThe army itself is divided into Techs and Marksmen. Questions of loyalty\nand ability come up, as well as tidbits on which group is more abusive of\nthe other.\n\nIn the beginning there is an interview with an old woman, followed by an\ninterview with an officer. There are some more conversations (with a\nfriendly and an enemy).  There is a last minute conversion.  In the end\nthere is a flame-throwing weapon.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nNow with UPDATES!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
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