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  "thread": {
    "id": 3615,
    "subject": "Clues: Needles in Haystacks",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-11-26T17:58:29+00:00",
    "last": "2002-11-26T17:58:29+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0211-2260@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at cox.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-11-26T17:58:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Clues: Needles in Haystacks",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "At 11:04 AM 11/26/2002, you wrote:\n\nI think Wolfe is subtle, demanding, and sometimes frustrating.  But I\nalso think he plays fair with his readers."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I suspect he tries, but I don't think he always realizes what can be\ninterpreted as a clue.\n\nJerry Friedman"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Yes, that's perhaps THE weakness in Wolfe. Out of the 1,000,000+ items he \ntosses into every novel, which are the clues? Wolfe gets frustrated that \npeople don't \"get\" what's going on, but it's his own fault for putting so \nmuch stuff into his books and burying the clue-needles in such large haystacks.\n         But even so, the trip is always worth it!\n\nNutria"
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