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    "id": 5533,
    "subject": "Tolkien & Wolfe",
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    "first": "2010-01-12T14:22:28+00:00",
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      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
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      "date": "2010-01-12T14:22:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tolkien & Wolfe",
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          "text": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gene_Wolfe&curid\u00157426&diff36438974&oldid36408664\n\nHas anyone ever seen Wolfe & Tolkien's correspondence?"
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        "name": "John Watkins",
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      "date": "2010-01-12T14:26:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tolkien & Wolfe",
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          "text": "Possibly that just refers to the fan letter Wolfe sent Tolkien and the reply\nhe received?  Wolfe describes both, and transcribes Tolkien's response, in\n\"The Best Introduction to the Mountains.\"\n\nUnless Wolfe preserved a copy of his letter, it must survive, if at all, in\nTolkien's papers."
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          "text": "On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gene_Wolfe&curid\u00157426&diff36438974&oldid36408664\n\nHas anyone ever seen Wolfe & Tolkien's correspondence?\n\n--\ngwern\n_______________________________________________"
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      "from": {
        "name": "Rob Thornton",
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      "date": "2010-01-12T15:18:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tolkien & Wolfe",
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          "text": "An authorized copy of Best Introduction to the Mountains is online at:\n\nhttp://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html\n\nrob"
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          "text": "On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:26 AM, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> wrote:\nPossibly that just refers to the fan letter Wolfe sent Tolkien and the reply\nhe received? Wolfe describes both, and transcribes Tolkien's response, in\n\"The Best Introduction to the Mountains.\"\n\nUnless Wolfe preserved a copy of his letter, it must survive, if at all, in\nTolkien's papers.\n\nOn Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:"
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          "text": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gene_Wolfe&curid\u00157426&diff36438974&oldid36408664\n\nHas anyone ever seen Wolfe & Tolkien's correspondence?\n\n--\ngwern\n_______________________________________________"
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      "date": "2010-01-12T16:49:34+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tolkien & Wolfe",
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          "text": "An authorized copy of Best Introduction to the Mountains is online at:\n\nhttp://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html\n\nrob"
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          "text": "Where I am proud to host it\n\n- hartshorn"
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