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    "id": 4931,
    "subject": "question about book anatomy",
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    "first": "2007-11-17T14:04:50+00:00",
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      "from": {
        "name": "Transentient",
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      "date": "2007-11-17T14:04:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) question about book anatomy",
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          "text": "With Pirate Freedom, Wolfe has again placed a favorite quote of his  \nright at the beginning. After the acknowledgements, before the page  \nwith the title on it.\n\nCan anybody tell me what this component of a book is called? Its not a  \npreface, its not a forward...is it an epigram? It's \"a quote at the  \nbeginning of a book...\" and I know there is a more specific definition."
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        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
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      "date": "2007-11-17T16:23:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) question about book anatomy",
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          "text": "On 2007.11.17 09:04:50 -0500, Transentient <transentient at gmail.com> scribbled 0 lines:"
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          "text": "With Pirate Freedom, Wolfe has again placed a favorite quote of his\nright at the beginning. After the acknowledgements, before the page\nwith the title on it.\n\nCan anybody tell me what this component of a book is called? Its not a\npreface, its not a forward...is it an epigram? It's \"a quote at the\nbeginning of a book...\" and I know there is a more specific definition."
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          "text": "How about \"epigraph\"? <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Epigraph_%28literature%29>"
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          "text": "gwern\nWalther NRO DUVDEVAN South MD4 Koancho Doom RX- E. Compsec"
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      "date": "2007-11-17T18:29:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) question about book anatomy",
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          "text": "On Nov 17, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:\nOn 2007.11.17 09:04:50 -0500, Transentient <transentient at gmail.com>  \nscribbled 0 lines:"
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          "text": "With Pirate Freedom, Wolfe has again placed a favorite quote of his\nright at the beginning. After the acknowledgements, before the page\nwith the title on it.\n\nCan anybody tell me what this component of a book is called? Its  \nnot a\npreface, its not a forward...is it an epigram? It's \"a quote at the\nbeginning of a book...\" and I know there is a more specific  \ndefinition."
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          "text": "How about \"epigraph\"? <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Epigraph_%28literature%29 "
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          "text": "Sounds like it! That's funny, I thought this at first, but my brain  \nscrambled the word to \"epigram\" which is not the same thing, so I  \nlooked that up and was like, darn, must be something different.\n\nAnyway - very cute epigraph in Pirate Freedom. "
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