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    "id": 6427,
    "subject": "silk, the dancing toy, and gods in the tunnels",
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    "first": "2013-08-24T15:52:10+00:00",
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      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at yahoo.com"
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      "date": "2013-08-24T15:52:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  silk, the dancing toy, and gods in the tunnels",
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          "text": "\"By now everyone know I actually think Wolfe creates symbols and \"metaphors\" that are actually extremely literal. Thus, Shadow Children riding Marshmen is the same as Shadow Children riding a man named Marsch (his name is misspelled in my copy as Marsh in the title \"A Story by John V Marsh\", which I feel might be intentional even if changed in later editions by copy editors).\"\n\non the other hand, as everyone KNOWS, sometimes typos are just typos. "
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