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  "thread": {
    "id": 947,
    "subject": "Dial W for Wolfe",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-09T22:29:06+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-09T22:29:06+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0034@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-09T22:29:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dial W for Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I have just been rereading _The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories\nand Other Stories_ (Pocket Books paperback edition). It seems Gene Wolfe is\nmore than commonly found of using \"dial\" as a verb.\n\nIn _The Doctor of Death Island_, on p. 258, an orderly in a prison hospital\nsays, to a patient in a hospital bed, \"I thought you might want me to dial\nyou down for the night.\" It is fairly plain from context that this means\nturning the control to lower the head of the bed.\n\nIn _Feather Tigers_, on p. 157, the following passage occurs. \"QuoQuo\ninclined his head (the conventional gesture of acquiescence) and taking his\nblaster from his belt dialed a semidiffuse beam and depressed the firing\nstud.\"\n\nI don't think this is of any great significance, but it is mildly\ninteresting (to me, at least) in light of the Solar Labyrinth discussion\nrecently.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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