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  "thread": {
    "id": 4088,
    "subject": "sev's 2nd book",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-07-11T05:59:00+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-11T05:59:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3652@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-11T05:59:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) sev's 2nd book",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Severian goes to some length during writing Book of the New Sun to address his \nreaders personally, which means that he expects to have some.  Yet at the \nopening of  Urth of the New Sun, he claims no one will ever read his new \nnarrative. So he has some new information at the time of his scribbling.  How \nfar after his arrival on the little island with the sleeping gods (always a \nsad description in my mind) did he begin writing Urth of the New Sun?  Is he \nimmortal? In any case, casting the second copy out into space implies that he \nhas some slight presentiment that Urth is screwed and that the first copy is \ninsufficient - he takes a shot in the dark or a lottery chance that it will \nwind up somewhere to be read, whereas the one in the library might have \nalready been given up as lost even before his trial.  That's a lot of copying, \neh?\n\nYeah, it's hard to read the document as \"solely\" political, but certainly he \nhad some personal motivation in writing the whole thing twice.\n\nBTW, I think Wolfe will be at Readercon this year (this month, eh?).  I don't \nknow anything about it, and I won't be there, but he mentioned something of \nthe sort.\n\nMarc Aramini"
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