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    "id": 6299,
    "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 98, Issue 9",
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    "first": "2012-10-13T13:15:44+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<000601cda944$da887a60$8f996f20$@hwaet.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Eric Bourland",
        "address": "eb at hwaet.com"
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      "date": "2012-10-13T13:15:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 98, Issue 9",
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          "text": "John -- sounds like a good book. I'll find it and come back here with\nthoughts. I've been lurking in this group for some months, but paying\nattention to the intriguing discussions.\n\nEric\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: urth-bounces at lists.urth.net [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On\nBehalf Of urth-request at lists.urth.net\nSent: Friday, October 12, 2012 4:32 PM\nTo: urth at lists.urth.net\nSubject: Urth Digest, Vol 98, Issue 9\n\nSend Urth mailing list submissions to\n\turth at lists.urth.net\n\nTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit\n\thttp://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net\nor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to\n\turth-request at lists.urth.net\n\nYou can reach the person managing the list at\n\turth-owner at lists.urth.net\n\nWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than\n\"Re: Contents of Urth digest...\"\n\n\nToday's Topics:\n\n   1.  Robert Aickman, The Model (jbarach at aol.com)\n   2. Re:  Robert Aickman, The Model (Ant?nio Pedro Marques)\n   3. Re:  Robert Aickman, The Model (jbarach at aol.com)"
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          "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMessage: 1\nDate: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:07:12 -0400 (EDT)\nFrom: jbarach at aol.com\nTo: urth at lists.urth.net\nSubject: (urth) Robert Aickman, The Model\nMessage-ID: <8CF761C48207CBD-F28-3501A at webmail-m058.sysops.aol.com>\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"\n\nURTHlings --\n\nRecently I read Robert Aickman's The Model, a book which is blurbed by\n(among others) Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and Gene Wolfe.  Wolfe says about\nit:\n\n\n\"The late Robert Aickman was up to something, and quite consciously.  He did\nnot title his little book The Model for nothing.  What he has done (and knew\nhe had done) is discover a new wonderland.  I would bet that the number of\npeple who have done that is less than one tenth the number who have\ndiscovered actual islands, inhabited or treasure; we must now add Aickman to\nthat short list.  He has told us what I think none of us had realized before\n-- that czarist Russia can be just as viable a wonderland as, say, Baghdad\nunder the Caliph.  And he has not merely told us; he has proved it by\nleaving us a model.\"\n\n\nSome aspects of the book reminded me strongly of Wolfe (e.g., Aickman often\nimplies things, rather than saying them outright, and you have to be paying\nattention as you read to catch what's really going on or being said), and I\nwondered about the possible influence of Aickman on Wolfe.  Certainly Wolfe\nhimself has written at least one story set in something like the wonderland\nhe says Aickman discovered (\"The Death of Koschei the Deathless: A Story of\nOld Russia\"), and certain elements in \"Queen of the Night\" (the carriage\njourney, for instance) remind me a bit of what happens in The Model (though\nThe Model is much less creepy and graphic).\n\nHas anyone else read The Model?  Thoughts?\n\nJohn"
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