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    "id": 5488,
    "subject": "Cues and Lolita?",
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    "first": "2009-09-11T22:57:08+00:00",
    "last": "2009-09-12T03:01:51+00:00"
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      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Groves",
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      "date": "2009-09-11T22:57:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cues and Lolita?",
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          "text": "Glad to see some activity on the urth list.  In the interest of possibly\nstirring up a little more:\n\nI Lolita for the first time a few months ago -- Amazing!!!  (But difficult;\nI recommend an annotated copy or an accompanying class notes booklet.)\nThere's lots of wordplay throughout, and one that I seem to remember\nreccurring frequently is play with \"Q\" (as in \"Quilty\"), \"cue,\" and maybe\n\"clue.\"  Has anyone made any connection between Lolita and Wolfe's short\n\"Cues\" from TIoDDaOSaOS?  I haven't even reread \"Cues\" in a year or so, but\nI thought I'd throw this idea out there anyway.\n\nIf any of you doesn't have any of Wolfe's collections, then that one (The\nIsland of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories) is the one to\nbegin with, both because it's first and because it's best."
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        "name": "Jonathan Goodwin",
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      "date": "2009-09-11T23:29:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cues and Lolita?",
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          "text": "I'm actually teaching Island of Dr. Death, etc., in an introduction to\nshort fiction class in a few weeks.\n\nThe title of the story is actually \"'Cues\" (i.e., \"Cues [unless it's a\nmisprint]). It's an opaque story, and I'm thinking about what I'll\nhave to say about it in class. I recall some discussion on this list\nabout scatological imagery. Wolfe's stories also allow for a ready\nintroduction to questions of interpretation and intention, as the\nrecent discussions about An Evil Guest show."
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          "text": "On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Groves\n<matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:\nGlad to see some activity on the urth list. In the interest of possibly\nstirring up a little more:\n\nI Lolita for the first time a few months ago -- Amazing!!!? (But difficult;\nI recommend an annotated copy or an accompanying class notes booklet.)\nThere's lots of wordplay throughout, and one that I seem to remember\nreccurring frequently is play with \"Q\" (as in \"Quilty\"), \"cue,\" and maybe\n\"clue.\"? Has anyone made any connection between Lolita and Wolfe's short\n\"Cues\" from TIoDDaOSaOS? I haven't even reread \"Cues\" in a year or so, but\nI thought I'd throw this idea out there anyway.\n\nIf any of you doesn't have any of Wolfe's collections, then that one (The\nIsland of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories) is the one to\nbegin with, both because it's first and because it's best.\n\n_______________________________________________"
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        "name": "Matthew Groves",
        "address": "matthewalangroves at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2009-09-12T03:01:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cues and Lolita?",
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          "text": "The initial open quote on \" \"Cues \" is there because it's, well, the\nopening of a line of dialog:\n\n\"Cues?\" the young (not really so young any more) man said. \"I'm\nafraid I don't understand.\"\n\nAre you attaching some additional significance to this punctuation?\n\nI don't like the scatological interpretation.  I suppose I'll go ahead\nand reread the story, now that I've got the book out..."
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          "text": "On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Jonathan Goodwin <joncgoodwin at gmail.com> wrote:\n\nI'm actually teaching Island of Dr. Death, etc., in an introduction to\nshort fiction class in a few weeks.\n\nThe title of the story is actually \"'Cues\" (i.e., \"Cues [unless it's a\nmisprint]). It's an opaque story, and I'm thinking about what I'll\nhave to say about it in class. I recall some discussion on this list\nabout scatological imagery. Wolfe's stories also allow for a ready\nintroduction to questions of interpretation and intention, as the\nrecent discussions about An Evil Guest show."
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