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  "thread": {
    "id": 3283,
    "subject": "revelatory appeal",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-05-28T16:20:10+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-28T16:20:10+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-1101@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-28T16:20:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) revelatory appeal",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Well, this revelation/renewed appeal has happened for me with a ton of Wolfe's \nstuff.  I'll be honest: I didn't get Peace or the Fifth Head of Cerberus or \nThe Book of the Short Sun the first time through - and I hated Return to the \nWhorl the first time I read it.  Now, after me tree revelation, (which I claim \nresponsibility for, but the challenges and comments (especially of Nutria) \nhelped me to polish into a theory) made me believe that TBOTSS was not only \ngreat, but that it was my favorite book in the whole world. I love to read it \nat random now - because it always confirms my grand unifying theory (no matter \nwhat you dudes say - and one or two people actually believe me).\n\nThe reason for this is simple: Wolfe always seems two steps ahead,but when I \nget something he writes I feel like a genius. In other words, I feel that you \nreally do have to come to a key realization worked into the text on your own \nto appreciate them; I don't know many other authors who do this so \nsuccessfully.  In a way, to love a work of fiction by Wolfe is to love your \nown ideas; he reaffirms my faith in my own mental processes and gives me hope \nthat there really is someone out there who thinks like me.\n\nI will say this: I had a hard time reading Peace the first time, and now that \nI get it, it is fun to read.  I will make this distinction: Zelazny's \nChronicles of Amber were fun to read the first time through, and I read them \nevery couple of years just because they were fun and they are still fun.  \nWolfe's texts may not have been fun to read the first time through, but they \nbecome ultimately much, much more fun for me everytime.  I really do like them \nmore.  A lot more.   I love them; I foist them on my friends; I read them to \nmy mother; I serve as a one man propaganda army; I caress them everyday. A few \nyears ago they just sat on my shelf with the rest of the books.\n\nMarc Aramini"
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