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  "thread": {
    "id": 4888,
    "subject": "OT: Lafferty recommendations",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2007-07-22T21:39:57+00:00",
    "last": "2007-07-22T22:04:31+00:00"
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      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
        "address": "gwern0 at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2007-07-22T21:39:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT: Lafferty recommendations",
      "in_reply_to": "<D37376F5-8AD5-4451-9278-7A0D4EF04B53@texas.net>",
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          "text": "On  0, Sean Lackey <zeppelin at texas.net> scribbled:"
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          "text": "I read dad's copy of The Devil is Dead about 15 years ago, I read my\ncopy a few weeks ago.\n\nI'm not convinced they were entirely the same.\n\nBut I liked them both nevertheless.\n\nThis book bears watching however....\n\nSean Lackey"
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          "text": "They might well not have been. I quote a section from the Wikipedia article on Lafferty:\n\n*\"Apocryphal Passage of the Last Night Of Count Finnegan On Galveston Island\"; the last chapter of The Devil Is Dead, omitted from the standard version, because the publisher of the first edition did not receive it in time to include it; later published separately in Episodes of the Argo"
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          "text": "gwern\n 790 Skyt el Yukon Templeton Johohonbu LUK Cohiba Soros"
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    {
      "message_id": "<D37376F5-8AD5-4451-9278-7A0D4EF04B53@texas.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Sean Lackey",
        "address": "zeppelin at texas.net"
      },
      "date": "2007-07-22T22:04:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT: Lafferty recommendations",
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          "text": "I read dad's copy of The Devil is Dead about 15 years ago, I read my  \ncopy a few weeks ago.\n\nI'm not convinced they were entirely the same.\n\nBut I liked them both nevertheless.\n\nThis book bears watching however....\n\nSean Lackey"
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          "text": "On Jul 22, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Roy Lackey wrote:\nEchoing what others have said: Lafferty is probably most  \nconsistently at his\nbest in short stories, but it was _The Devil is Dead_ that first  \nhooked me.\nThat's a fine book, as is its sequel, _Archipelago_. (Good luck  \ntrying to\nfind it! <g>) There are even a couple of related short stories in the\ncollections.\n\n-Roy"
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