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  "thread": {
    "id": 4891,
    "subject": "Dr. Island on WolfeWiki",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2007-07-28T21:22:11+00:00",
    "last": "2007-07-29T04:04:23+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<39ed084f0707281422g5301962aoc2529234d1c0111a@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Groves",
        "address": "matthewalangroves at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-07-28T21:22:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dr. Island on WolfeWiki",
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          "text": "We have been working on the entry for \"The Death of Dr. Island\" on\nWolfeWiki.  It's only begun, really, but it could use input from\ncontributors with a background in mythology, or a knowledge of the\npoems, especially Enoch Arden and Il Penseroso.  Or someone with a\nbackground in abnormal psychology or brain science.  Or someone who\ncan talk about the physics of the Dr. Island satellite habitat, and\nall that sciencey stuff.  Or just someone who likes this story.  It's\none of those masterpieces of Wolfe's short fiction that seem to\nresonate thematically with all his other major works."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<44fb53d10707281619j336be8aq3d60a76a82e86d2a@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Keeley",
        "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-07-28T23:19:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dr. Island on WolfeWiki",
      "in_reply_to": "<39ed084f0707281422g5301962aoc2529234d1c0111a@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "I really don't know too much about Dr. Island, having read it only once, but\nI might be able to help out just a bit on \"Il Penseroso.\" The main character\nof \"The Death of Dr. Island\" has a split brain and two personalities, while\n\"Il Penseroso\" is a companion piece to Milton's earlier \"L'Allegro.\" \"Il\nPenseroso\" discusses the enjoyment of melancholy, while the speaker of\n\"L'Allegro\" is more conventionally \"happy\" (not really the right word I'm\nafraid). Essentially, the two poems form a dialectic or polemic (I get the\nimpression that Milton himself preferred the worldview expressed in \"Il\nPenseroso\"). I'll try and take another look at the poems in the next few\ndays; I'm writing this from memory, and it's been about a year and a half\nsince I've taken a close look at either poem. In any case, count me in.\n\n-Matt"
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          "text": "On 7/28/07, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:\n\nWe have been working on the entry for \"The Death of Dr. Island\" on\nWolfeWiki.  It's only begun, really, but it could use input from\ncontributors with a background in mythology, or a knowledge of the\npoems, especially Enoch Arden and Il Penseroso.  Or someone with a\nbackground in abnormal psychology or brain science.  Or someone who\ncan talk about the physics of the Dr. Island satellite habitat, and\nall that sciencey stuff.  Or just someone who likes this story.  It's\none of those masterpieces of Wolfe's short fiction that seem to\nresonate thematically with all his other major works.\n_______________________________________________"
        }
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    {
      "message_id": "<39ed084f0707282104l41364bb2m5cb4b8bcc1bbf458@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Groves",
        "address": "matthewalangroves at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-07-29T04:04:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dr. Island on WolfeWiki",
      "in_reply_to": "<44fb53d10707281619j336be8aq3d60a76a82e86d2a@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Matt Keeley wrote:\nThe main character\nof \"The Death of Dr. Island\" has a split brain and two personalities, while\n\"Il Penseroso\" is a companion piece to Milton's earlier \"L'Allegro.\""
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          "text": "Excellent!  I knew about the poetic pairing but I didn't connect it to\nNicholas's divided brain (one of which is *silent* while the other\ndoes the talking!).  Also, I should have linked to the page on DoDI:\n\nhttp://www.holkar.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.TheDeathOfDrIsland\n\nAs I say, it's just a beginning, but I think if we can get some people\ntogether with a little expertise in the areas I listed, we could\nreally make some headway on interpreting this story.\n\nMatt G."
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