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  "thread": {
    "id": 6597,
    "subject": "This Week in Google Alerts: narrator of \"The Tree Is My Hat\"\n\tobit",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2014-08-04T16:17:17+00:00",
    "last": "2014-08-05T01:56:59+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<CAMwO0gywqpu-mOoqKsMrPFc3WUDzv7=W46ha5GSCiXeAwc77gA@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
        "address": "gwern at gwern.net"
      },
      "date": "2014-08-04T16:17:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: narrator of \"The Tree Is My Hat\"\n\tobit",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/07/lawrence-santoro-1942-2014/"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Writer Lawrence Santoro, 71, died July 25, 2014 of cancer.\n\nSantoro’s story “God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him” (2000) was a Stoker Award nominee, as was his audio drama adaptation of Gene Wolfe’s “The Tree Is My Hat” (2002). Some of his short work is collected in Drink for the Thirst to Come (2011), and other books include novel Just North of Nowhere (2007) and short novel Lord Dickens’s Declaration (2009). Santoro also produced the Tales to Terrify horror podcast."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The TR interview with Wolfe seems to be pretty popular."
        },
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<53DFB549.4040007@verizon.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Stockhoff",
        "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net"
      },
      "date": "2014-08-04T16:31:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: narrator of \"The Tree Is My\n Hat\" obit",
      "in_reply_to": "<CAMwO0gywqpu-mOoqKsMrPFc3WUDzv7=W46ha5GSCiXeAwc77gA@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Unfortunate! I enjoyed \"The Tree Is My Hat.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 8/4/2014 12:17 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:\nhttp://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/07/lawrence-santoro-1942-2014/"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Writer Lawrence Santoro, 71, died July 25, 2014 of cancer.\n\nSantoro’s story “God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him” (2000) was a Stoker Award nominee, as was his audio drama adaptation of Gene Wolfe’s “The Tree Is My Hat” (2002). Some of his short work is collected in Drink for the Thirst to Come (2011), and other books include novel Just North of Nowhere (2007) and short novel Lord Dickens’s Declaration (2009). Santoro also produced the Tales to Terrify horror podcast."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The TR interview with Wolfe seems to be pretty popular."
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<CAF1072x7d+pTfOxdQO0TSyzCB3z1=7PkWiEJJrj8PpfQaoZ-Qg@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2014-08-05T01:56:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: narrator of \"The Tree Is My\n Hat\" obit",
      "in_reply_to": "<53DFB549.4040007@verizon.net>",
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          "text": "During the fuller award ceremony, santoro's speech was much my favorite in\nappreciation of Gene, talking about how Gene is a great man because that's\njust how he is, regardless of fame, and how Gene recommended him for an\nappropriate project based on some scant interaction some time before,\npretty much crediting Gene with starting his career.  I didn't realize he\nwas 70.\n\nHe was a very good speaker. That was a very beautiful night."
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