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  "thread": {
    "id": 6324,
    "subject": "Gene Wolfe Biography",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2012-11-28T14:03:41+00:00",
    "last": "2012-11-28T16:17:17+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<50B619BD.4090600@marklewin.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mark Lewin",
        "address": "mark at marklewin.com"
      },
      "date": "2012-11-28T14:03:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gene Wolfe Biography",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Hi all,\n\nI figured this was the place to ask this question!\n\nHaving just read /This is Me, Jack Vance/, I was thinking how much I'd \nenjoy reading a Wolfe biography, or better still, an autobiography. Does \nanyone know if Wolfe has ever hinted at such a work? Or have any of you \ndie-hard Wolfe scholars contemplated writing a biography?\n\nThanks in advance,\n\nMark"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<E2FDCCD0-6DED-4387-AC98-0A43454A164E@liftingfaces.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ryan Dunn",
        "address": "ryan at liftingfaces.com"
      },
      "date": "2012-11-28T15:03:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gene Wolfe Biography",
      "in_reply_to": "<50B619BD.4090600@marklewin.com>",
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          "text": "Honestly, I'd rather see a Gene Wolfe documentary in the style of Errol Morris.\n\nThe documentary would need to be convincing, and full of useful memoir-style anecdotes, but ultimately a hoax, a lie, and a puzzle, structured like a Wolfe short story.\n\nI would call it:\n\n\"DO NOT TRUST THIS FILM AS FAR AS YOU CAN THROW IT (TRUST IT WITH YOUR LIFE)\"\n\nOr, alternately:\n\n\"UNTRUSTWORTHY\"\n\nNeil Gaiman would produce it and appear in it, of course. Maybe help write it along with Wolfe?\n\n...ryan\n\nSent from my iPhone"
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          "text": "On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Mark Lewin <mark at marklewin.com> wrote:\nHi all,\n\nI figured this was the place to ask this question!\n\nHaving just read This is Me, Jack Vance, I was thinking how much I'd enjoy reading a Wolfe biography, or better still, an autobiography. Does anyone know if Wolfe has ever hinted at such a work? Or have any of you die-hard Wolfe scholars contemplated     writing a biography?\n\nThanks in advance,\n\nMark\n_______________________________________________"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<50B62CA2.1050307@marklewin.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mark Lewin",
        "address": "mark at marklewin.com"
      },
      "date": "2012-11-28T15:24:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gene Wolfe Biography",
      "in_reply_to": "<E2FDCCD0-6DED-4387-AC98-0A43454A164E@liftingfaces.com>",
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      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Ha! Now there's a thought ..."
        },
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          "text": "On 28/11/12 15:03, Ryan Dunn wrote:\nHonestly, I'd rather see a Gene Wolfe documentary in the style of \nErrol Morris.\n\nThe documentary would need to be convincing, and full of useful \nmemoir-style anecdotes, but ultimately a hoax, a lie, and a puzzle, \nstructured like a Wolfe short story."
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<CAJ8=rtgNGJ5hm-HWAEZ22LC+rd39e6AsuDujq18qovmD6onxdA@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "danldo at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2012-11-28T16:17:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gene Wolfe Biography",
      "in_reply_to": "<50B619BD.4090600@marklewin.com>",
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          "text": "Given a choice between an autobiography and one more novel, I'll take the\nnovel."
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          "text": "On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Mark Lewin <mark at marklewin.com> wrote:\n Hi all,\n\nI figured this was the place to ask this question!\n\nHaving just read *This is Me, Jack Vance*, I was thinking how much I'd\nenjoy reading a Wolfe biography, or better still, an autobiography. Does\nanyone know if Wolfe has ever hinted at such a work? Or have any of you\ndie-hard Wolfe scholars contemplated writing a biography?\n\nThanks in advance,\n\nMark\n\n_______________________________________________"
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