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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2997",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 2997,
    "subject": "Wolfe filk from Wolfe folk",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-02-26T19:00:04+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-26T21:50:47+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-234@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-26T19:00:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe filk from Wolfe folk",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Blattid, he quoted Nutria and wrote:\n2. I wrote Wolfe a decade ago a list of questions, including what kinds\nof music he likes best ... He replied that he favors filk, and that was\nhis hobby music. So, SF all the way when it comes to old Gene!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Now, that may be the single scariest thing about GW I have ever heard.\nIs he also a Sherman-Yankovic fan, we must wonder?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I hardly need to mention it, but gee.  And we have such proven talent\naround here--alga's paean to Cordwainer Smith \"Miyameefla\" (sung to tune of\n\"Mona Lisa\") springs to mind.  I bet the filk would brew, bubble, and flow.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-235@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-26T19:08:51+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Wolfe filk from Wolfe folk",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0202-234@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "My dear Mantis,\n\nActually, Wolfe's work doesn't in general seem all that amenable to \nfilkification, but really that should be perceived as a challenge. \n\nIf nothing else, I'm amazed that nobody has yet written anything using \nthe obvious natural pun (like unto Yankovic's \"this here Anakin guy\") \n\"the dawning of the Age of Severian.\" But I don't think I will."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-237@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-26T21:50:47+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Wolfe filk from Wolfe folk",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0202-235@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Blattid wrote:\nIf nothing else, I'm amazed that nobody has yet written anything using\nthe obvious natural pun (like unto Yankovic's \"this here Anakin guy\")\n\"the dawning of the Age of Severian.\" But I don't think I will."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "My thoughts were more toward using old folk songs. Turning \"Greensleeves\"\ninto something like:\n\n\"Alas, Thecla, you do me slight\nYour final friend, your last boy-slave\nWhen I have loved you from first sight\nAnd will love you beyond your grave.\n\nChatelaine of Matachin\nChatelaine of my heart bright\nChatelaine of traitor kin\nEscape with my shiny knife.\"\n\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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