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  "thread": {
    "id": 6285,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe's literary portrait of Neil Armstrong",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2012-08-26T21:02:49+00:00",
    "last": "2012-08-26T21:02:49+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CAGB0RZ7ks0zj_L_7-ee6K7=NO7fDk9xXzRcVfE+zs9n_Db+yug@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Daniel Petersen",
        "address": "danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2012-08-26T21:02:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gene Wolfe's literary portrait of Neil Armstrong",
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          "text": "I thought you folks would appreciate being reminded that Wolfe actually\ncomposed his own tribute to Neil Armstrong back in 1980:\n\nhttp://silkandhornheresy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/this-warrior-of-dead-world-gene-wolfes.html\n\nWhile I'm at it, does this reminiscence from Armstrong not sound rather\nWolfean?\n\n\"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth.\nI put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet\nEarth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.\" (Neil\nArmstrong)\n\n\n*URTHRISE:*\n[image: 9.3 Earth seen from the Moon]\n\n-DOJP"
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