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  "thread": {
    "id": 512,
    "subject": "Silly Bus",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-04-26T09:38:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-29T20:27:35+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0777@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-26T09:38:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Silly Bus",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "For the second week, I nominate Kafka's \"In the Penal Colony.\" With all the\nemphasis on Borges, I think Kafka has been somewhat overlooked as an\ninfluence on Wolfe. In my opinion, THE CASTLE has relevance to PEACE, to\nFIFTH HEAD, to \"Tracking Song\" and to \"Seven American Nights,\" which also\nlooks to AMERIKA.\n\nBut \"In the Penal Colony\" with its curiously detached look at torture, its\nfascination with the instruments of torture, and its examination of the\nrelationship between the torturer and the condemned strikes me as seminal to\nWolfe's original decision to make this Severian's profession. (I also think\nit influenced \"V.R.T.\"even more directly--the officers in the two pieces\ncould be clones.)\n\nCan't decide on a second book, though that Oliver Sacks idea is evocative if\nnot directly relevant.\n\n-alga-"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0787@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Derek Bell",
        "address": "dbell at maths.tcd.ie"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-29T20:27:35+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Silly Bus",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0009-0777@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In message <199804261339.GAA16194 at lists1.best.com>, Alice Turner writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "[Excellent Kafka suggestions]\nCan't decide on a second book, though that Oliver Sacks idea is evocative if\nnot directly relevant."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\tCome to think of it, the people with Korsakov's Syndrome\nreminded me of Latro, but that is another silly bus. (Latro seemed to\nhave more short term memory than the sail who thought it was still\n1945 in _The man who mistook his wife for a hat_)\n\n\tDerek"
        }
      ]
    }
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