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  "thread": {
    "id": 464,
    "subject": "No. 5's visit to the library in `Fifth Head...'",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-04-01T20:25:46+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-01T20:25:46+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0695@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "danrabin at a.crl.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-01T20:25:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) No. 5's visit to the library in `Fifth Head...'",
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          "text": "I thank Damien Broderick for pointing out the clues in the passage in `The\nFifth Head of Cerberus' wherein the narrator visits the library and finds\nold science-fiction books.\n\nIt is interesting that this passage differs between the original\npublication in _Orbit 10_ (Damon Knight, ed.) and the book edition.  The\noriginal only mentions _Monday or Tuesday_ and the book on the\nassassination of Trotsky before ending the paragraph and beginning the next\nwith `I never found any books of my father's'.  I found this startling\nbecause I had read the book version first, and remembered the Vinge\nreference very distinctly.\n\nI wonder whether the additional books mentioned (_The Mile-Long Spaceship_\n`by some German', and the volume of Vinge) were added by Wolfe to the book\nversion, or edited out of the original by Knight (or at Knight's\nsuggestion).\n\nAlso, I note that `VVinge' is to `Wing' as `Wolfe' is to `Wolf', for what\nit's worthe.\n\n  -- Dan Rabin"
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