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  "thread": {
    "id": 4353,
    "subject": "Ultan, borges",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2005-02-02T19:30:49+00:00",
    "last": "2005-02-02T19:30:49+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<f5238c305020219304d87f3e2@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Maru Dubshinki",
        "address": "marudubshinki at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-02-02T19:30:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Ultan, borges",
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          "text": "I know that Ultan, the blind librarian of New sun, is related to\nBorges all too clearly, and that his haunting speech is something\nBorges himself might well have written, if he dared to write something\nso unobfuscatedly autobiographically.  But the style is not Borges,\nnor Wolfe's, in my humble opinion.\nRecently, re-reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, about half-way\nthrough is a chapter which is a litany of strange, but beautiful\nthings Gray devoted himself to as an aesthete, and those listings and\ncomments all strike me inescapably as being of the same vein as Ultan,\nthough it did not occur to me recently, despite both passages\nlingering long in my mind.\nFurthermore, I was told that  part of teh reason 'Gray' was a flawed\nmasterpiece was Wilde's resorts to French 'Symbolistes' games in the\nmiddle of the book. I think it was referring to those chapters which\nso impressed me in 'Gray', and by extension of Wolfe's.\nUnfortunately, I know nothing of the French Symbolistes, and Internets\nsearches reveal too little.\nCan anyone here trace that passage's essence beyond a Catholic orphan,\na blind Argentinian, and a debauched Englishman?\n\n~Maru\nMicrosoft delenda est."
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