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  "thread": {
    "id": 953,
    "subject": "More Wolfe-isms",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-07-10T11:57:37+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-11T01:11:14+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0043@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-10T11:57:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) More Wolfe-isms",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "So why do Wolfe characters almost always drink mate (that's ma-TAY, no\naccent ague here, alas) and if they don't, at least mention it?  More\nof the Borges/South America influence?\n\nI've also noticed that Wolfe characters are more likely to shake their\nheads than say \"no\".\n\nI don't think there's any significance to these things, but I have\nnoted them in quite a few of his books and stories.\n\nD"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0050@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-11T01:11:14+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) More Wolfe-isms",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0016-0043@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "I am now skipping around in my Gene Wolfe collections. One thing I've\nnoticed that happens to his characters frequently is that they must travel\nwithout food or shelter and often with an injury. These characters then\nusually worry about becoming too weak from hunger and cold (and their\ninjury, if they have one) to continue long enough to find food and shelter\n(and medical attention).\n\nSeverian muses this way in the mountains and, I think, other places.\nCutthroat (who is pretty close to being a yaup) in \"Tracking Song,\" thinks\nalong these lines more than once. In \"Lukora\" [1] Mierax Andros is\ndescribed after a long day hiking without food: \"She was very tired by\nthen, and she knew that she was no longer so strong as she had been.\" I am\nsure there are many, many other examples.\n\nIn light of this it amused me to find this passage in \"Sweet Forest Maid\"\n[2]. (This seems to me to be rather a pointless tale, but I'm probably just\nmissing it.)\n\n--------------\nA man would have tried to carry enough food for three large meals a day.\nLenor took tea and matches and some hard baking chocolate, a box of dried\nfigs, sugar, and a small pan. She expected to lose weight, had fasted\nbefore (although she called it dieting), and suffered no neurotic doubts\nabout her strength of today as compared to her strength of yesterday.\n--------------\n\nYou can't get too irritated at Wolfe for his quirks when he pokes fun at\nthem himself.\n\n[1] _Endangered Species_, TOR paperback, p. 356.\n[2] ibid., pp. 371-372.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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