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  "thread": {
    "id": 3859,
    "subject": "A case of relativity",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-02-19T17:14:11+00:00",
    "last": "2003-02-19T17:14:11+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0302-2958@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.aprice at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-02-19T17:14:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A case of relativity",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote..."
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "That's an interesting point ... and one that\nI find extremely difficult to understand,\nespecially in the aftermath of the Long/Short\nbooks, in which over and over God/the Outsider\nrepeatedly intervenes in subtle but active and\ndifficult-to-ignore ways."
        },
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          "text": "I don't think we're disagreeing at all. That's pretty well the sort of thing\nI meant to say when I was maundering on late last night!\n\nIn my view, there is a shift in style and emphasis between TB/UotNS and\nTBotLS, but if the level of \"explicitness\" rises, then it is only relative\nto his other works. By the standards of most other authors, he's still\npretty indirect and subtle. Reading a lot of Wolfe, I find it easy to forget\njust how utterly odd and deeply cryptic his stories are.\n\nFor example, I've just finished reading Margery Allingham's \"Tiger in the\nSmoke\", which I heartily commend to list members who like Golden Age\ndetective stories and, for want of a better name, \"Christian fiction\".\nWithout giving too much away, the plot is all about the hunt for a serial\nkiller who is knifing his way through a post-war London in the grip of a\ndeep smog. It's also very much about salvation and damnation in an\nexplicitly Christian sense, and by the standards of the genre the religious\nsubtext is pretty subtle stuff. But compared with Wolfe!!\n\nNigel"
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