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  "thread": {
    "id": 4089,
    "subject": "Wolfe at Readercon",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2003-07-11T06:33:07+00:00",
    "last": "2003-08-08T23:26:32+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3653@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-11T06:33:07+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe at Readercon",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "As Marc says, GW will be at Readercon--he's taking\npart in a panel discussion there concerning\nCatholicism and SF/Fantasy.\n\n--Nick Gevers."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3874@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-08T18:39:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe at Readercon",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3653@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "In the archives to HogBlog (http://www.koschei.net/blog/ July 15, 2003), I\ncame across the following description of Wolfe's talk on Catholicism and SF\nat Readercon: \"Gene Wolfe gave a very spirited account of the influence of\nredemption on his work; no-one, not even a villain, is beyond redemption.\nNo-one, he says, goes around in life thinking 'I'm a bad person.' He then\nlaunched into an improvised impersonation of an actual bad person, in the\ncourse of which I began seriously to wonder if he was going to punch through\nthe floor with his cane.\"  Unfortunately, that's all the detail it gives.\n\n--Adam"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3875@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gregg",
        "address": "gwbest328 at rcn.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-08T23:26:32+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Wolfe at Readercon",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0308-3874@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "I was there for that panel, and I think Mr. Wolfe could have had a third\ncareer as a preacher. During his improv, his voice rose and rose and\nrose until everyone in the hotel must have been able to hear his\nbooming, raging performance of the rationalizations and denials of a bad\nman. Readercon tapes all of their panels, and this was one for the\ngreatest hits album.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Adam Stephanides [mailto:adamsteph at earthlink.net] \nSent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:39 PM\nTo: urth at urth.net\nSubject: (urth) Wolfe at Readercon\n\nIn the archives to HogBlog (http://www.koschei.net/blog/ July 15, 2003),\nI\ncame across the following description of Wolfe's talk on Catholicism and\nSF\nat Readercon: \"Gene Wolfe gave a very spirited account of the influence\nof\nredemption on his work; no-one, not even a villain, is beyond\nredemption.\nNo-one, he says, goes around in life thinking 'I'm a bad person.' He\nthen\nlaunched into an improvised impersonation of an actual bad person, in\nthe\ncourse of which I began seriously to wonder if he was going to punch\nthrough\nthe floor with his cane.\"  Unfortunately, that's all the detail it\ngives.\n\n--Adam"
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          "text": "-- "
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