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  "thread": {
    "id": 3521,
    "subject": "Gnostic Wolfe - and Lindsay",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-10-28T17:20:03+00:00",
    "last": "2002-10-29T10:11:58+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0210-1959@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andy Robertson",
        "address": "andywrobertson at clara.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-10-28T17:20:03+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Gnostic Wolfe - and Lindsay",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "The most tremendous modern fictional work based on Gnosticism is A VOYAGE TO\nARCTURUS -  and I *don't* think Wolfe derived much from this incredibly\nsavage and *deeply* pessimistic  work.\n\nHowever, it is richly worth a look in itself, and is online somewhere IIRC\n\n\n    hartshorn\n\n\n----- Original Message -----"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"tom\" <tom at bitterman.net>\nTo: <urth at urth.net>\nSent: Monday, October 28, 2002 4:17 PM\nSubject: Re: (urth) Gnostic Wolfe vs CE Wolfe\n\nJames Wynn writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Tom said:\nGnostics (as far as we know) weren't all that pessimistic, really.\nCompared to doctrines like Sheol and predestination, Gnostics\nwere positively euphoric."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0210-1976@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "matthew.malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-10-29T10:11:58+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Gnostic Wolfe - and Lindsay",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0210-1959@digest.urth.net>",
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      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 28/10/2002 17:20:03 Andy Robertson wrote:\nThe most tremendous modern fictional work based on Gnosticism is A VOYAGE\nTO\nARCTURUS -  and I *don't* think Wolfe derived much from this incredibly\nsavage and *deeply* pessimistic  work.\n\nHowever, it is richly worth a look in itself, and is online somewhere\nIIRC"
        },
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          "text": "http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1329\n\nMatthew"
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