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  "thread": {
    "id": 42,
    "subject": "Books of Mr. Gold",
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    "first": "1997-05-17T23:44:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-17T23:44:00+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0001-0065@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-17T23:44:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Books of Mr. Gold",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #0292489 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00#\n\nJason,\n\nThe Chinese Egg, huh?  Hmmm.  That's interesting and leads to subtle\ninterpretations.\n\nI myself was thinking more of the two books of Mr. Gold (not that\nthis is \"right,\" mind you).  Both are forgeries (that is the threat that\nWeer has over Mr. Gold, which makes daughter Sherry come acourtin').  The\none that is more pivotal to the story describes the hiding spot for buried\ngold, if I remember aright--and Weer, digging, heard his shovel hit something\nsounding wooden and hollow, then his \"partner\" pulled a gun on him.\n\nAll of which ties back into the \"True Lies\" thread going on over on\nthe Whorl.  Was there really gold there?  How much?  If not, then\nwhat =did= they find?\n\nThe other Gold fake book is not exactly named, but is recognizable to\ngenre readers.  The one with the cover that is supposed to be human skin.\nOne wonders if it has as much validity as the buried treasure book?\n\nAll this gold quest stuff reminds me of alchemy, with its focus on\nturning lead into gold; which leads to that doctor in PEACE who\nspecializes in turning normal people into circus freaks . . . did he\nhave a journal or notebook?  Again, leading back to that second fake\nbook, perhaps.\n\nAnd turning potatoes into pseudo-orange juice into gold.\n\nFor those interested in these cross-Wolfe references, there is also a\n\"brown book\" in the Wolfe story \"Forlesen.\"\n\n=mantis="
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