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  "thread": {
    "id": 661,
    "subject": "cues/clues",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-25T12:38:05+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-25T12:38:05+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0099@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-25T12:38:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) cues/clues",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "The mini-story \"Cues\" (in TIODD&OS&OS) is a fair example of what John Clute\nrefers to as Wolfe's \"onieric jeux d'esprit\" (a phrase I enjoy). But I'll\noffer a midrash.\n\nFirst, when a writer does a story involving just about any form of art, it's\nreally about writing. So this is a little parable about writing. Who is the\nauthor? Not the not-so-young man, certainly. The author is the bowling ball.\nThen n-s-y man is a wannabe, with more confidence than talent, who thinks\nthat his contact with the \"great man\" (here a bowling ball) can bring\nsuccess.\n\nSo I think that the bowling ball is Gene Wolfe, the second bowling ball is\nNancy Kress (or you can choose your other successful and established writer\nwhose mind is a \"fair blue world, mottled by clouds and enriched with\nlife\"), the setting is a science fiction convention, and the n-s-y man is an\nimportunate and not-so-bright fan who wants to become a writer but hasn't a\nclue. Er, cue.\n\n-alga-"
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