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  "thread": {
    "id": 4111,
    "subject": "Wolfe Walks",
    "messages": 5,
    "voices": 5,
    "first": "2003-07-25T18:58:33+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-29T02:41:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3718@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "katbarx at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-25T18:58:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe Walks",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention: Gene Wolfe has left the \nbuilding.\n\nWolfe has left the Odyssey workshop prematurely; his explanation is on the \nLocus Website.\n\nhttp://www.locusmag.com/2003/Features/Letters07.html"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3719@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Bollen",
        "address": "abollen at internode.on.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-26T01:34:25+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Wolfe Walks",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3718@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Blattid wrote:\nLadies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention: Gene Wolfe has left the\nbuilding.\n\nWolfe has left the Odyssey workshop prematurely; his explanation is on the\nLocus Website.\n\nhttp://www.locusmag.com/2003/Features/Letters07.html\n\n--Blattid"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Poor GW. That must have been distressing."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3766@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "matthew.malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-28T10:19:53+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Wolfe Walks",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3719@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 25/07/2003 19:58:33 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nWolfe has left the Odyssey workshop prematurely; his explanation is on \nthe\nLocus Website.\n\nhttp://www.locusmag.com/2003/Features/Letters07.html"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Reading that I cannot help thinking of the Doonesbury cartoon strip's \nWalden College - \"Nothing but A grades\".\n\nMatthew"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3794@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at cox.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-29T01:51:01+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Wolfe Walks",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3766@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "I just read this.\n         Damn.\n         Here's an elderly gentleman being treated this way by novices, \nregardless of their age.\n         Gene apologizes to his host. Gentleman all the way.\n         Anybody who knows Gene knows that there could not have been \nanything harsh, rude, or mean about his comments on their work.\n         I'm not a fiction writer, and so would not try to come to the \nproposed workshop. But if those of you who are writers want do so something \nlike this to honor Gene's skill and what he has to offer, I'm all for your \ndoing it.\n         Damn, again. This is just appalling.\n         Damn and hell! And there are a lot of other even better God-given \nwords that are appropriate for this situation, but I'll forbear, since this \nis the internet!\n         I'd better post this before I change my mind. I've gotta clean the \nvomit off my keyboard.\n         #@$&&$XXXX***\n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3795@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Brandon Mason",
        "address": "suck_at_life at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-29T02:41:25+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Wolfe Walks",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3794@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "I agree that what the students in the workshop did was\nmore than a little childish.  Wolfe's work speaks for\nitself, and if they didn't want to be evaluated by him\nthen they shouldn't have attended the workshop.  You\nhave to wonder what they expected really, a soft pat\non the back?  I think these people probably thought\nthat they deserved to be there on account of the\nquality of their manuscripts, I think they should have\nlooked at it as a privelage."
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