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  "thread": {
    "id": 3638,
    "subject": "Heinlein in FLF",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-12-02T22:28:33+00:00",
    "last": "2002-12-02T22:28:33+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2325@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-02T22:28:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Heinlein in FLF",
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          "text": "Rostrum wrote:\nYeah, but you don't really want me to start comparing Free\nLive Free with Heinlein's _Number of the Beast_, do you?"
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          "text": "Which is funny, because I did detect odd flashes of Heinlein in FLF, mainly\nin the kitchen's \"door into summer\" image, but also the sort of Libertarian\nreading that Adam Stephanides was talking about (a reading that if not\nundermined by the text itself would produce a very Heinlein feel -- since I\nthink it is undermined, I wonder if it is a conscious critique of Heinlein\nor not).  As well as the whole \"--By His Bootstraps\" time-travel loop, of\ncourse!\n\nIf the four do end up in a \"simpler past,\" where they enjoy the benefits of\nfrontier liberty, then that would also be, imho, a thing to remind me of\nHeinlein.  The frontier spirit of THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS and the\nfrontiers of FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD.\n\nOTOH, Dave Langford's review of FLF mentions Chesterton's THE MAN WHO WAS\nTHURSDAY, and this seems very appropriate.\n\n=mantis="
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