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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/466",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 466,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v009.n001",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-04-02T10:05:06+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-02T12:40:10+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0697@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-02T10:05:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v009.n001",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "                                                                      \n02/04/98\n                                                                      11:01\n RE>Digest urth.v009.n001"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Robert Borski wrote:\n...inferentially we may assume Number Five's\nname to be the male equivalent of Jeannine or Jean/Gene."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Doh!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "As for the \"Wolfe\" moiety, besides the library reference, Number Five\nremarks that his house is sometimes referred to as Maison du Chien and that\nthis \"may have been a reference to our surname as well.\" [ibid. pg 14]."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Doh!\nI'm so stupid. Thank you Robert. Thank you Damien. I think I must\nhave read Cerberus too early in life, to have such a blinkered view\nof it now. I wonder what else I've missed?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0699@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Freestone",
        "address": "matthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-02T12:40:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v009.n001",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0009-0697@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Gene Wolfe\" as the narrator of Cerberus:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In \"Strokes\", Clute writes about a conversation between Wolfe and an SF\ncriticism class he was running:\n(Student) ...could the narrator's name really be Gene Wolfe?\nGene glanced at the student in mild surprise. \"Why of course,\" he said,\nas though he were the last person in the world to have a secret.\n\nI also seem to remember a passage (I don't have 5HC with me, so I can't\ncheck) where the name of the house and the name of the narrator are\ncompared... something like that anyway.\n\n--                              II         |\\      _,,,---,,_\nMatt Freestone                  II    zzz. /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_.\nmatthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk    II        |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\\ (  `'-'\nwww.matthewf.demon.co.uk/       II       '---''(_/--'  `-'\\_)"
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