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  "thread": {
    "id": 4154,
    "subject": "DD's and Hamlet's Mill",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-08-09T17:37:35+00:00",
    "last": "2003-08-09T17:37:35+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3881@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at hotpop.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-09T17:37:35+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) DD's and Hamlet's Mill",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Don,\nMy false modesty must be working over time for you have surely turned my\nhead. :-D"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Josh said:\nI've found that most people do better if they work up to 'Hamlet's\nMill'."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, one would have to wade through a library to read everything necessary\nto take on \"Hamlet's Mill\" with confidence. It was daunting due to my\ndeficiencies in Native American, Mesoamerican, Polynesian, and Indian\nmythology. I knew next to nothing about aetiologica. But I *had* read Gene\nWolfe, which might be of no use if you don't read him the way I do. So while\nI much of what was referred there just drifted by incomprehensibly, so\nmuch -- so much -- left me saying \"oooooh\" and \"oh. my. gosh.\"\n\nStill, Josh is right in that it *is* a hard book. Harder and longer than\n\"The White Goddess\", but every bit as useful in understanding what Wolfe is\nfrequently driving at in his major novels.\n\n--- Crush"
        }
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