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  "thread": {
    "id": 3296,
    "subject": "Bridge of Birds",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-06-06T18:54:18+00:00",
    "last": "2002-06-06T20:03:23+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0206-1170@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Darryl Swett",
        "address": "edorian at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-06-06T18:54:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Bridge of Birds",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>\nReply-To: urth at urth.net\nTo: urth at urth.net\nSubject: Re: Kai Lung (was Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online)\nDate: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:57:45 -0400 (EDT)\n\nOn Thu, 9 May 2002, Adam Stephanides wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "The Kai Lung stories were an early-20th-century series of fantasy \nstories\nset in China, written by Ernest Bramah.  The characters in them always \ntalk\nin the flowery, ultra-polite idiom of the Chinese princess in \"Under \nHill,\"\nso I assumed that Wolfe was pastiching Kai Lung.  But he might have been\npastiching Vance, I suppose."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "When I read the story, I thought Wolfe might be pastiching Barry Hughart's\n_Bridge of Birds_ (which is possibly the most wonderful fantasy novel I've\never read, Wolfe's works included).\n\n-Rostrum"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I started _Bridge of Birds_ last night, and I have to praise its wit and \ncharm.  Hughart did an excellent job of making the book fun to read.  It \nprobably sounds strange, but I had a smile on my face, even when a plague \nbeset the village.\n\nI have also checked out _The Golden Age_ by John C. Wright, which is next in \nmy queue.\n\n-Darryl/Dragonfly"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0206-1171@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-06-06T20:03:23+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Bridge of Birds",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0206-1170@digest.urth.net>",
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      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Darryl Swett wrote:\nI started _Bridge of Birds_ last night, and I have to praise its wit and \ncharm.  Hughart did an excellent job of making the book fun to read.  It \nprobably sounds strange, but I had a smile on my face, even when a plague \nbeset the village."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Not at all strange.  One of the chief virtues of BoB is Hughart's ability\nto maintain a light (and often hilarious) tone while telling about grim\nevents, and yet still managing to treat the characters and their\nsufferings as real, not as just cartoons to be laughed at.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
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