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  "thread": {
    "id": 79,
    "subject": "What Clute Said",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-07-01T22:45:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-07-01T22:45:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0002-0131@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-07-01T22:45:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: What Clute Said",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #2197133 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00#\n\nSpeaking of strange thoughts (rana--I =do= know what you are talking\nabout, I've just never been able to come up with an answer for\nAgilus's ribbon.  The comic book has his long hair tied back in a\nribbon, I think.), I was thinking of Clute's recent review of THE\nBOOK OF THE LONG SUN in the New York Review of Science Fiction,\nespecially his point about investigation/interrogation/confession\nwhich is always going on therein.\n\nAnd I asked myself what would be the complementary motif within THE\nBOOK OF THE NEW SUN, and answered, \"storytelling.\"  The brown book;\nSeverian telling Thecla's tales of Father Inire; Cyriaca's legend of\nthe librarians; guild lore; town lore of Saltus; etc.; and much later,\nSeverian telling his entire story to Tzadkiel, then again to little\nTzadkiel beside Brook Madregot, and to Eata after the flood.  (And the\nfact that Eata nods off at the beginning is simultaneously funny,\nin-jokey [like how in URTH ch. 49 the poignant tag endings of the four\nprevious volumes is burlesqued as, \"Had you been with me then, reader,\nand insisted I walk farther with you, I think I would have taken your\nlife.\"], sad [in that Severian is losing his power with words], and\ngloomy [energy is running down, hinting at the mortality that has been\nhaunting the whole volume].)\n\nWhich is neat, because on the Whorl they are all possessed by a drive\nto learn the Truth (objective) and become ensnared by the veils of maya\n(subjective truth); on weary Urth they while away the watches with\nseeminly discursive stories which (might?) reveal deeper truths.\n\nFather Brown contrasted with Scheheraizade.\n\n=mantis="
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