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  "thread": {
    "id": 3634,
    "subject": "For Dan - my point",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-12-02T14:03:43+00:00",
    "last": "2002-12-02T14:03:43+00:00"
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      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-02T14:03:43+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) For Dan - my point",
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          "text": "Hi Dan.  You suggested, in a manner I'm not quite sure how to take, Tolkien.  \nYou must miss the point of my post.  It is not that I really want trees to be \nsentient.  It is that I am trying to establish that Blue and Ushas are the \nsame place.  If there are living trees on Urth like there definitely, \ndefinitely are on Ushas, then I've just established one more thing that they \nhave in common, like being flooded and having a green planet near them and \nhaving huge sea creatures and having the same year and the same gravity.  I \ndon't necessarily want to read about sentient trees.  I want to establish so \nmany connections between Blue and Ushas that the burden of proof shifts away \nfrom me to all those doubters.  Whatever.  I think I'll stop posting for a \nwhile.  My whole point is that Wolfe is subtle - not that I think he didn't \nget good use out of the trees, but that he likes to use background information \nto reveal what's going on (ie - The elm tree planted by Eleanor Bold, the \njudges daughter, fell last night, waking me from my slumber ... 200 pages \nlater ... Mrs. Porter plants endangered American species on the graves of her \nfriends = that kind of subtle treatment of background detail, if you know what \nI mean).\n\nChalk it all up to psychotropic drugs.  Naked Lunch with alzabo analeptic.  \nMarc Aramini"
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