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  "thread": {
    "id": 4406,
    "subject": "Borges In The Popular Media",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2005-04-17T15:37:55+00:00",
    "last": "2005-04-20T13:46:14+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<4262E53D.8020902@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-04-17T15:37:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Borges In The Popular Media",
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          "text": "Borges and his \"Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius\" were mentioned on last \nSunday's (4/10/05) \"The L Word\" television drama on Showtime in the US, \nin particular as part of a curriculum where a notoriously demanding \nteacher assignes the creation of a sequel to it in another medium, IIRC."
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\n< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >"
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    {
      "message_id": "<e02c439a05041910037838bb27@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Philip Loguinov",
        "address": "philipov at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-04-19T10:03:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Borges In The Popular Media",
      "in_reply_to": "<4262E53D.8020902@io.com>",
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          "text": "It's funny that they chose that particular story, as at it's\nbeginning, Wolfe's entire writing strategy is laid out by Bioy Cesares\n(if I rememeber the spelling correctly).\n\nPhilip Loguinov"
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    {
      "message_id": "<BAY2-F24C9CE6C52FADE86A5FAEDD72B0@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Seth Lombardi",
        "address": "sethlombardi at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-04-20T13:46:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Borges In The Popular Media",
      "in_reply_to": "<e02c439a05041910037838bb27@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Borges and his \"Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius\" were mentioned on last Sunday's \n(4/10/05) \"The L Word\" television drama on Showtime in the US, in \nparticular as part of a curriculum where a notoriously demanding teacher \nassignes the creation of a sequel to it in another medium, IIRC."
        },
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          "text": "Ah! That's interesting because I just picked up the first trade paperback of \nGrant Morrison's Doom Patrol, and the first story arc in it is essentially \njust that. In fact, I have to wonder if the person who wrote that episode \ndidn't have Morrison directly in mind.\n\nseth\n*****************************\nSeth Lombardi\nsethlombardi at hotmail.com\nhttp://sethlombardi.blogspot.com/\nAIM: melombardi\n\"Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side their \nlikeness makes us laugh\" -Pascal"
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