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  "thread": {
    "id": 3082,
    "subject": "\"Petting Zoo\" spoilers",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-03-25T19:12:30+00:00",
    "last": "2002-03-25T22:12:22+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0203-433@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
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      "date": "2002-03-25T19:12:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Petting Zoo\" spoilers",
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          "text": "Everybody has different opinions about ranking stories.  Nick Gevers\ndislikes \"Walking Sticks,\" but I like it, in fact I probably like it better\nthan \"Hour of Trust.\"\n\nBut now I'm talking about \"Petting Zoo.\"\n\nIn short, Roderick and Rex: a boy and a dinosaur.  And the dinosaur is a\ntyrannosaurus rex.  Who can talk and is kind of purple in color.\n\nSo yes, there is some Barney <tm> in there.  But there is also something\nelse, I think--something at the edge of my memory.\n\nI turn to the Children's Literature experts we have around here (I know we\nhave a few).  What was that book, or series of books, maybe by\nHarperCollins now, that had illustrations similar to \"Curious George\" but\nwas about a boy who grew a dinosaur from an egg and then rode around on its\nneck?  A boy in a polka-dot shirt.\n\nSure, there are probably a bunch.  But I wonder if there is one in\nparticular that matches the back-story of \"Petting Zoo\" like Dr. J/Mr. H\nmatches \"Walking Sticks\"?\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nNow with UPDATES!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0203-447@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Fernando Q. Gouvea",
        "address": "fqgouvea at colby.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-03-25T22:12:22+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) \"Petting Zoo\" spoilers",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0203-433@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "**** On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:12:30 -0800, Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> said:\n\nmantis> I turn to the Children's Literature experts we have around here (I\nmantis> know we have a few).  What was that book, or series of books, maybe\nmantis> by HarperCollins now, that had illustrations similar to \"Curious\nmantis> George\" but was about a boy who grew a dinosaur from an egg and\nmantis> then rode around on its neck?  A boy in a polka-dot shirt.\n\nThe description sounds like \"The Enormous Egg\", by Oliver Butterworth. The\nman character is a boy called Nate who finds a large egg from which a live\ntriceratops hatches. The triceratops is named \"Uncle Beasley\" and various\nadventures ensue. There may be some distant connection, but it doesn't seem\nto quite fit the Wolfe story.\n\nFernando"
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          "text": "Fernando Q. Gouvea                      \nDepartment of Mathematics          Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online\nColby College                      Mathematical Association of America\nWaterville, ME 04901               http://www.maa.org\nfqgouvea at colby.edu                      \n==========================================================\n\nThe difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science\nrequires reasoning while those other subjects merely require\nscholarship.\n  -- Robert Heinlein\n\n\n\n-- "
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