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    "id": 5555,
    "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10",
    "messages": 3,
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    "first": "2010-03-10T22:40:45+00:00",
    "last": "2010-03-11T16:52:36+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<C3D6C827-9A37-45E9-ADDD-2035E0BDF165@phyast.nhn.ou.edu>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Mullen",
        "address": "kieran at nhn.ou.edu"
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      "date": "2010-03-10T22:40:45+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10",
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          "text": "On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:11 PM, urth-request at lists.urth.net wrote:\n\nMessage: 1\nDate: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:28:40 -0600\nFrom: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>\nTo: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>\nSubject: (urth) Lawrence Person Sort of Reviews The Sorcerer's House\n\nhttp://www.lawrenceperson.com/?p=941\n\nHe also has a picture of Wolfe at ReaderCon last year:\nhttp://www.lawrenceperson.com/?tag=science-fiction"
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          "text": "FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned \"The Sorcerer's House\"  \n\"hermetic\"  and \"like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny  \nentrance and pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in  \nthe strategies necessary to solve them.\"\n\nHow about putting that on the back of a book cover as a blurb....(!)\n\nKieran "
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      "message_id": "<e8e9702e1003110843p6f396a2aq25558cedebab1ee7@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2010-03-11T16:43:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10",
      "in_reply_to": "<C3D6C827-9A37-45E9-ADDD-2035E0BDF165@phyast.nhn.ou.edu>",
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          "text": "FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned \"The Sorcerer's House\" \"hermetic\"\n?and \"like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and\npleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies\nnecessary to solve them.\""
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          "text": "This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head,\nso I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The\nBook of the New Sun in that on the first read, I thought I generally\nunderstood what was going on.\n\nSometimes Wolfe's novels are more like the puzzle box in Hellraiser.\n\nJ."
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      "message_id": "<4B991FD4.1030208@colby.edu>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Fernando Gouvea",
        "address": "fqgouvea at colby.edu"
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      "date": "2010-03-11T16:52:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10",
      "in_reply_to": "<e8e9702e1003110843p6f396a2aq25558cedebab1ee7@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Reading past that first sentence it becomes clear that Witcover's beef \nis at least partly political. I'm afraid I didn't read past the second \nsentence.\n\nFernando"
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          "text": "On 3/11/2010 11:43 AM, James Wynn wrote:\nFWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned \"The Sorcerer's House\" \"hermetic\"\n  and \"like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and\npleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies\nnecessary to solve them.\"\n     "
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          "text": "This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head,\nso I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The\nBook of the New Sun in that on the first read, I thought I generally\nunderstood what was going on.\n\nSometimes Wolfe's novels are more like the puzzle box in Hellraiser.\n\nJ.\n_______________________________________________\nUrth Mailing List\nTo post, write urth at urth.net\nSubscription/information: http://www.urth.net\n\n   "
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          "text": "=============================================================\nFernando Q. Gouvea\nCarter Professor of Mathematics\nColby College                     Editor, MAA FOCUS\n5836 Mayflower Hill               Editor, MAA Reviews\nWaterville, ME 04901              http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/\nhttp://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea\n\nMan: \"What's this, then?\"\n\nMr. Brown: \"A liver donor's card.\"\n\nMan: \"Need we say more?\"...\n\nMr. Brown: \"Listen! I can't give it to you now. It says, 'In the event of death.' Uh. Oh! Ah. Ah. Eh.\"\n\nMan: \"No one who has ever had their liver taken out by us has survived.\"\n\n   -- Monty Pithon's \"The Meaning of Life\""
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