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  "thread": {
    "id": 4274,
    "subject": "gene wolfe's parents",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2004-12-06T22:47:01+00:00",
    "last": "2004-12-07T12:36:32+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<20041207064659.B14A737CF1@sitemail.everyone.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "turin",
        "address": "turin at hell.com"
      },
      "date": "2004-12-06T22:47:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) gene wolfe's parents",
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          "text": "did gene wolfe lose his parents at an early age.  on his blog william gibson writes\n\n\nGene Wolfe once said that being an only child whose parents are dead is like being the sole survivor of drowned Atlantis. There was a whole civilization there, an entire continent, but it's gone. And you alone remember. That's my story too, my father having died when I was six, my mother when I was eighteen. Brian Aldiss believes that if you look at the life of any novelist, you'll find an early traumatic break, and mine seems no exception. \n\nDoes anyone know where this is form or who he is talking about?"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "message_id": "<000201c4dc92$21066660$6501a8c0@NAME>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com"
      },
      "date": "2004-12-07T11:22:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) gene wolfe's parents",
      "in_reply_to": "<20041207064659.B14A737CF1@sitemail.everyone.net>",
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          "text": "Turin wrote"
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          "text": "did gene wolfe lose his parents at an early age.  on his blog \nwilliam gibson writes\n\n\nGene Wolfe once said that being an only child whose parents \nare dead is like being the sole survivor of drowned Atlantis. \nThere was a whole civilization there, an entire continent, \nbut it's gone. And you alone remember."
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          "text": "<snip>"
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          "text": "Does anyone know where this is form or who he is talking \nabout? "
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          "text": "In the essay 'Where I get my ideas from' collected in Castle of the\nOtter, Wolfe writes (movingly, for me):\n\nThe horrible thing has happened. Father and Mother are dead... Where is\nthe little house where Boots stretched before the gas fire, where Mother\nsat crocheting... Where is lost Atlantis? Lost in the dust. And only I\nam left to tell you.\n\nIt sounds as if Gibson was thinking of this - although Wolfe might have\nused the same image elsewhere."
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    {
      "message_id": "<BAY12-F3689919EB1FB9107996252D8B50@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mournings glory",
        "address": "mourningsglory at hotmail.com"
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      "date": "2004-12-07T12:36:32+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) gene wolfe's parents",
      "in_reply_to": "<20041207064659.B14A737CF1@sitemail.everyone.net>",
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          "text": "did gene wolfe lose his parents at an early age."
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          "text": "No.\n\nWolfe was 42 when his father died in 1973; 46 when his mother passed over in \n1977.\n\nmsg"
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