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  "thread": {
    "id": 3823,
    "subject": "Samuel R. Delany",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-01-29T16:26:02+00:00",
    "last": "2003-01-29T20:02:13+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2861@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Geller",
        "address": "dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-29T16:26:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Samuel R. Delany",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:\nI mentioned the fiction of Samuel R. Delany before, and since then it has\noccured to me that it would be a real scream if Green's hidden/encrypted\nname were decoded as \"William Dhalgren.\" <g>"
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          "text": "That reminds me.\n\nGene Wolfe told me once that Master Ultan was or represented Borges.\n\nI have been wondering for a while now if there might not be\nsome other writers encoded in there, and specifically if\nBaldanders might not be or represent Chip Delany. The notion\njust won't go away.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n."
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2862@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-29T20:02:13+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Samuel R. Delany",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0301-2861@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Josh Geller wrote..."
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          "text": "Gene Wolfe told me once that Master Ultan was or represented Borges.\n\nI have been wondering for a while now if there might not be \nsome other writers encoded in there, and specifically if \nBaldanders might not be or represent Chip Delany. The notion \njust won't go away."
        },
        {
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          "text": "H'mmmm. \"Baldanders\" is _from_ Borges, if I recall correctly \n... and there's nothing about him that particularly makes me \nthink of Delany, his fiction or his characters ... Though \nobviously there's more than Borges to Baldanders; the Doctor \nreminds us, not very obliquely, that we should also be \nthinking Frankenstein.\n\nSo what about Baldanders makes you think Delany?"
        }
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    }
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