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  "thread": {
    "id": 4153,
    "subject": "Latro musings",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-08-09T03:18:34+00:00",
    "last": "2003-08-09T04:07:06+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3878@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lisa Schaffer-Doggett",
        "address": "harlekin at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-09T03:18:34+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Latro musings",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Hi all,\n\nUnfortunately, I have woefully little to contribute to the \nunderstanding of these great  books, but I've found the discussion \ngoing on here quite helpful.  I just picked up a U of Chicago edition \nof Herodotus' History which I plan to read as soon as I finish the last \nfew pages of Legends of the Samurai.  On an aside, I also picked up a \ncopy of Hamlet's Mill which I plan to tackle after H (thanks Crush).  \nThe farther I travel on the path of the Autodidact, the more pissed I \nget at my public (including college) education.  I should have read \nHerodotus ten, if not fifteen, years ago.  Oh well.\n\nAnyhow back to Latro.  This is my one contribution, and it's only an \naesthetic one.  I found that while I was reading the Soldier omnibus I \nwas having a devil of a time keeping track of all of the people and \nevents.  A few times I backtracked to figure out what was going on but \nthen I stopped and just read through.  It was quite an interesting \neffect, forgetting a lot of what I read.  Very disorienting, but it \nproduced quite an empathetic bond in me with Latro and made him one of \nmy favorite characters in the works of Wolfe's I've read.\n\nFor what it's worth,\nDon"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3879@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Geller",
        "address": "brunians at brunians.org"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-09T04:07:06+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Latro musings",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0308-3878@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 20:18, Lisa Schaffer-Doggett wrote:\n                                             I also picked up a \ncopy of Hamlet's Mill which I plan to tackle after H (thanks Crush)."
        },
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          "text": "I've found that most people do better if they work up to 'Hamlet's \nMill'. I generally recommend that people first read Anthony Aveni's\n'Stairways to the Stars' and William Sullivan's 'The Secret of\nthe Incas' before they tackle 'Hamlet's Mill'. The first is a good\ngeneral work on what's called archaeoastronomy these days, the \nsecond is a specific application of the ideas and methodology\ndescribed in 'Hamlet's Mill' to the history and archaeology of\nAndean civilization.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3880@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lisa Schaffer-Doggett",
        "address": "harlekin at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-09T03:59:23+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Latro musings",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0308-3879@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 09:07 PM, Josh Geller wrote:\n\nI've found that most people do better if they work up to 'Hamlet's\nMill'. I generally recommend that people first read Anthony Aveni's\n'Stairways to the Stars' and William Sullivan's 'The Secret of\nthe Incas' before they tackle 'Hamlet's Mill'. The first is a good\ngeneral work on what's called archaeoastronomy these days, the\nsecond is a specific application of the ideas and methodology\ndescribed in 'Hamlet's Mill' to the history and archaeology of\nAndean civilization."
        },
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          "text": "Thanks for the suggestion.  On looking back, I see that you brought up \nHamlet's Mill to Crush.  So double thanks.  God only knows when I'll \nget to all this stuff.  I need a personal reader like Borges had \n(though I'd rather not go blind).  Maybe I won't sleep.  Yeah.\n\nDon"
        }
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    }
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