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  "thread": {
    "id": 4147,
    "subject": "Cybele, with bluebonnets",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-08-06T14:53:05+00:00",
    "last": "2003-08-06T15:51:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3853@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ron Crown",
        "address": "crownrw at slu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-06T14:53:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cybele, with bluebonnets",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Has anyone read this book by Charles Harness (published by NESFA Press)? \n  I mention it because it's reminiscent of There Are Doors--written in a \nkind of magic realism with classical allusions, the same themes of lost \nlove, death, and transcendence, etc., etc.  Which may explain why Gene \nWolfe was asked to provide a blurb which he did in highly laudatory \nfashion (\"There are perhaps a thousand wonderful books.  Most of us are \nfortunate if we so much as hear the titles of them in the course of a \nlifetime.  Very few of us ever touch the covers of more than half a \ndozen.  This is one of them.\")  Exaggerated but it's still a delightful \nlittle read.  It's also a lot more overtly (ostensibly) autobiographical.\n\nI especially enjoyed the hilarious description of the Battle of San \nJacinto--the first person narrator is a Texan (as are both Harness and \nWolfe, for that matter).\n\nRon Crown\nSaint Louis University"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3854@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "katbarx at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-06T15:51:25+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Cybele, with bluebonnets",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0308-3853@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "H'mmm. I'll have to look for this. Harness's THE ROSE is, imio, one of the\nabsolutely indispensible books of the stfnal heritage."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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