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  "thread": {
    "id": 468,
    "subject": "Gene, son of Gene",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-04-03T10:27:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-03T10:27:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0704@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Damien Broderick",
        "address": "damien at ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-03T10:27:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gene, son of Gene",
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          "text": "Tony Ellis asks why I consider it determinable that the narrator of `Fifth\nHead' is named Gene Wolfe.  Well, I've forgotten the fine-grain of my\nreasoning - it's more than two decades since I read the book.  But a quick\nsquiz at the text shows this much (I'm using the UK Quartet pb edition, 1975):\n\np. 51: Father says of Number Five: `his name is the same of mine.'  And, a\nlittle earlier, Marsch says of the aunt: `She is in reality daughter to an\nearlier - shall we say \"version\" - of yourself.'\n\np. 16: `Call me Aunt Jeannine.'  I take this to be a femininized form of\nGene (Gene-ine).  One might wish it had been Eugenia, but still.\n\nBTW, *is* Gene Wolfe's baptismal name (as it were) Eugene?  It is given in\nClute/Nicholls simply as Gene.\n\n[apologies to =mantis= for garbling his own handle in my previous rushed post]\n\nAs for the terraced folly - beats me.  A wild association: while I've never\nbeen in New Orleans, the descriptions sets off movie memories of the Vieux\nCarre.\n\nDamien"
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