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    "id": 5989,
    "subject": "This week in Google Alerts: Wolfe interview & heart problems",
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    "first": "2011-03-22T02:15:10+00:00",
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      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
        "address": "gwern0 at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2011-03-22T02:15:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) This week in Google Alerts: Wolfe interview & heart problems",
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          "text": "http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2011/03/gene-wolfe-engineering-the-future/\n\nSpoilers?"
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          "text": "“The more science-fictional part of Home Fires uses war in space as a plot device. To get my heroine Chelle off-planet so I would get the time-disparity thing where she hardly ages while decades pass for people on Earth, I needed a war for her to fight. There they were, just waiting in the wings: the Os, the cyborgs. Somebody could probably grab a first-level cyborg and do some reprogramming, and wouldn’t that be interesting” Hook ?em up to a computer, and start tinkering with the software. So I have Rick Johnson, who went to West Point but has been reprogrammed as a spy for the Os.\n\n??I’m told that I am a fourth-level cyborg now, because I’ve got a pacemaker. The whole thing with my heart problems just dropped into our lives like a bomb, because I had thought that for my age I was in excellent health. Then, after an echocardiagram, I found out I was actually scheduled to die within the next few months unless I had surgery! In the April-May-June quarter of 2010, I was admitted to the hospital five times. They would send me back to the nursing home and something would go wrong — off in the ambulance and back to the hospital. Riding in an ambulance got to seem normal to me, like taking a cab! (Boy, do those things jolt.)?"
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          "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net"
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