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  "thread": {
    "id": 462,
    "subject": "Explication of a few sma",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-03-30T15:28:05+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-02T13:36:57+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0008-0692@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-30T15:28:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Explication of a few sma",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "                                                                      \n30/03/98\n                                                                      16:59\n RE>Explication of a few small points"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "David Lebling wrote:\nThe \"teratoid sign\" in TBOTNS is our radiation warning symbol."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I thought of this too... but decided no. Our radiation symbol is\nblack on yellow, and this is crimson. Also, its simple rotational\nsymmetry is hardly \"teratoid\". Finally, as far as we know, the \nmirrors have nothing to do with radiation. I'm sure that nice\nFather Inire wouldn't show little girls around the chamber if they\ndid."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "...Didn't\nsomeone report (somewhere in the archives) that Wolfe has said that no\none was murdered by Alden Weer in _Peace_? "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In the online People interview, Wolfe was asked if Weer killed\nmany of the other characters in the book and responded \"Let\nme think about that... no. I don't think so, no.\"\n\nPersonally, I've never quite understood what the case against\nWeer was, re the librarian and the plant worker. Ok, fabrication is\na strong theme in the novel, but Weer himself doesn't seem\nto go out of his way to lie to us (or rather, to himself). Or am\nI missing something?\n\nDamien, in your fascinating Peace essay a few posts back \nyou say that "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The name of the narrator of Wolfe's *The Fifth Head of Cerberus*, never\ngiven in that text, can be determined to be Gene Wolfe."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I'm not quite sure how you arrive at this. Could you \nelaborate, please?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0701@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-02T13:36:57+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: Explication of a few sma",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0008-0692@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 30 Mar 1998, Tony Ellis wrote:\nDavid Lebling wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "...Didn't\nsomeone report (somewhere in the archives) that Wolfe has said that no\none was murdered by Alden Weer in _Peace_? "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "In the online People interview, Wolfe was asked if Weer killed\nmany of the other characters in the book and responded \"Let\nme think about that... no. I don't think so, no.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I'd always understood that quote to mean that, Weer did not kill \"many\" of\nthe other characters of the book, not that he didn't kill anyone.  I doubt\nWolfe would have had to think about it if Weer was entirely innocent, and\nit seems pretty plain that he at least (accidentally) killed the boy at\nthe top of the stairs.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
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