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  "thread": {
    "id": 4344,
    "subject": "Saltimbanque.",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2005-01-27T17:03:37+00:00",
    "last": "2005-01-27T17:13:31+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<20050128010333.79497.qmail@web25706.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Raylor",
        "address": "rjraylor at yahoo.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-27T17:03:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Saltimbanque.",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Tony Ellis wrote\n\nRobert Borski rendered our whole debate largely\npointless by quoting Wolfe as saying the narrator of\nVRT is a Shadow\nChild. I think 'Shadow Child' was a slip of the tongue\nfor 'abo', but\nI'm open to persuasion.\n......\n\nI think I read a transcript of that interview, where\nGene appeared to have forgotten the name of 'A Story'.\n\nhttp://home.austin.rr.com/lperson/wolfe.html\n\nGW Of course, I did do the rather tricky thing, which\nI suppose is New Wave, of having one of the characters\nin one of the other stories as the purported author\nof, a, aggh...I'm sorry, I've lost the titles of my\nown stories.\n\nLP: \"'A Story,' by John V. Marsch.\"\n\nGW: \"'A Story,' by John V. Marsch,\" yes, which is not\nactually written by John V. Marsch, but by the\nshadowchild who has replaced John V. Marsch. (laughs)\n\nLet's assume he meant what he said.\nI've seen other interviews where he gives significant\nclues as throwaway remarks.\n\nSo either Victor is a shadow child.\nOr possibly the shapes-shifting cat-girl is actually a\nShadow Child who finishes them both off and then\npretends to be John Marsch... with a beard!\n\nThis is a semi-whimsical suggestion, but it is light\nrelief for me after trying to trace the origins of the\nCelts and Etruscsns!\n\nOn that note some accounts put the origins of both\nCelts and Etruscans in Asia Minor around Lydia.\n\nI think themes of cultural mimicry are implied. Many\ncolonised people take on aspects of the colonists.\nThis can also happen the other way around. \n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t"
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    {
      "message_id": "<1f761737050127171377344b9f@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "danldo at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-27T17:13:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Saltimbanque.",
      "in_reply_to": "<20050128010333.79497.qmail@web25706.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>",
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          "text": "On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:03:33 +0000 (GMT), Jim Raylor\n<rjraylor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:\nI think themes of cultural mimicry are implied. Many\ncolonised people take on aspects of the colonists.\nThis can also happen the other way around."
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          "text": "... indeed ... as when takeaway curry was declared \nthe primary national cuisine of England ...\n\n--Dan'l"
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          "text": "\"We're going to sit on Scorsese's head\"\n     -- The Goodfeathers"
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