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  "thread": {
    "id": 3750,
    "subject": "New Wolfe stories: comments",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-01-09T10:04:17+00:00",
    "last": "2003-01-10T02:43:10+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2634@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-09T10:04:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) New Wolfe stories: comments",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I've now read both of GW's newest stories, \"The Dog of\nthe Drops\" (3SF, December 2002) and \"Castaway\" (Sci\nFiction, February 2003). Both are good, if not his\nvery best. \n\n\"The Dog of the Drops\" is under 1,000 words, and takes\nthe form of a tale told in rustic dialect by an old\nman to an unnamed frame narrator who is visiting the\ncountryside, perhaps on official duty. The time is\nafter some great holocaust that has devastated\ncivilization; a talking dog features (or, just\npossibly, a werewolf?)\n\n\"Castaway\" may particularly interest those preoccupied\nwith Wolfe's vision of Mother Goddesses (Ocean, or, in\nthis case, Earth.) Again, a tale is told to an\nanonymous narrator, this time by a shipwreck victim\nmarooned for decades on a desolate world. Poignant,\nand unusually direct for GW.\n\n--Nick Gevers."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2637@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Richard Horton",
        "address": "rrhorton at prodigy.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-10T02:43:10+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) New Wolfe stories: comments",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0301-2634@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:04:17 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:\n\n\"Castaway\" may particularly interest those preoccupied\nwith Wolfe's vision of Mother Goddesses (Ocean, or, in\nthis case, Earth.) Again, a tale is told to an\nanonymous narrator, this time by a shipwreck victim\nmarooned for decades on a desolate world. Poignant,\nand unusually direct for GW."
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          "text": "I thought \"Castaway\" quite good. One of his better recent stories. It\nreminded me of Tiptree's \"Last Flight of Dr. Ain\".\n\nso,=20\n\nSPOILER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDo you think the world was actually Earth?  Or was the castaway\nremembering lost Earth somehow?\n\n\n--=20\nRich Horton | Stable Email: mailto://richard.horton at sff.net\nHome Page: http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton\nAlso visit SF Site (http://www.sfsite.com) and Tangent Online =\n(http://www.tangentonline.com)"
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