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  "thread": {
    "id": 4900,
    "subject": "Wolfe at the Beach: Two Reveiws",
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    "first": "2007-08-29T23:26:08+00:00",
    "last": "2007-08-29T23:26:08+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<742044.54005.qm@web61318.mail.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Patrick Pottorff",
        "address": "happyguy99993 at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-08-29T23:26:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe at the Beach: Two Reveiws",
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          "text": " Hey, since you mentioned that, where can I find \"Pattern Recognition\"? What about the other New Sun and Briah short stories? "
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          "text": "------------------------------\n\nMessage: 6\nDate: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:07:00 -0500\nFrom: \"Rex Lycanthrosaurus\" \nSubject: Re: (urth) Wolfe at the Beach: Two Reviews\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" \nMessage-ID: <1188356820.744.1207790373 at webmail.messagingengine.com>\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"\n\nInterestingly, Gibson borrows one of the Wolfe's classic techniques in\n\"Spook Country\" -- i.e., refusing to identify a major character by name,\nin this case \"the old man\" -- although if you've read \"Pattern\nRecognition,\" you can probably guess who he most likely is.\n\nSimilarly, Father Christopher's last name is never stated in Pirate\nFreedom, although Wolfe does provide several clues about its ultimate\nidentity. Perhaps it's even the same as a certain list alumnus -- one\nwith a hard to pronounce Italian name?\n\n\nOn Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:43:11 -0700 (PDT), \"Stuart Hamm\"\n said:\nAmen to the Gibson plug...I loved \"Spook...\" although not quite as much\nas \"Pattern Recognition\"\n  Philip K Dick meets Paul Auster\n  I just wish he was as prolific as GW and I didn't have to wait so long\n  between releases"
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          "text": "  Rex Lycanthrosaurus\n  lycanthrosaurus at fastmail.fm"
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          "text": "http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n       \n---------------------------------\nPinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. "
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