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  "thread": {
    "id": 53,
    "subject": "Short Stories",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-05-29T08:40:24+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-29T08:40:24+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0001-0084@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex Outhred",
        "address": "aouthred at mail.usyd.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-29T08:40:24+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Short Stories",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Hello everyone!\n\nIt is marvellous to be able to discuss my favourite author.  For two\nyears now, I have been looking for places to discuss Wolfe.  Like others\non this list, I have had great difficulty convincing my friends that\nWolfe is good, let alone great (although even my mother had to concede\nhis talent after I made her read \"Death of the Island Doctor\" {Storeys\n...}.  This short story seemed to be the best for introducing a reader\nof non-SF literature to Wolfe).\n\nMonsieur Driussi - I have flipped through your magnificent book, and\nwould love to own a copy.  However, it costs $80 here in Australia (cf.\n$35 for your average hardcover).\n\nI have been a silent subscriber to Whorl and Urth for some time, but\nhave been kept too busy in the real world for active participation.\n\nNow, I have two questions regarding some Wolfe short stories.\n\nFirst - I would like to hear an interpretation of the ending of\n\"Tracking Song\" (Island of Dr Death ...).  In the final two paragraphs,\ntwo people arrive on a giant vehicle.  Who are they?  I have thought of\na partial mundane explanation, but I don't like it.\n\nSecond - why does The Doctor of Death Island (also in The Island of Dr\nDeath ...) end so suddenly after the good Dr Margotte arrives (the\ncamera! The camera!)?\n\nI would also love to discuss \"The Changeling\", but I think I should\nre-read it a few times before engaging in such a risky operation.\n\nPangolin\n(It's not the Whorl, but nevertheless ...)"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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