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  "thread": {
    "id": 98,
    "subject": "3 *ship Yarns",
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    "first": "1997-07-14T14:20:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-07-14T14:20:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0002-0158@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-07-14T14:20:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 3 *ship Yarns",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #5222338 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02#\n\nRon Crown,\n\nWithout rereading the stories I'll try to bolster it a bit anyway.\n`It' being how they remind me of \"All the Hues of Hell.\"\n\nThey are all on starships, naturally.\n\n\"Alien Stones\" has a triangle dynamic where one of the characters\nmight/must be a computer simulation based upon the other guy (ambiguous\nstatus similar to that of Skip dead/alive in \"Hues\").  There is a Bible\non the bridge, but it is in two volumes; and there is a strong thread of\nBathsheeba (biblical content on surface, similar to \"Hues\").\n\n\"Silhouette\" has the triangle dynamic (I think) again, with an\nambiguous element (isn't it the hero?), and ambiguous alien\nsilhouettes analogous to the shadow matter world aliens in \"Hues.\"\n\n\"The Other Dead Man\" has the triangle dynamic with one ambiguous\nstatus (dead/alive).  [The title seems to play off of a very early\nWolfe story, \"The Dead Man.\"]\n\nIt is quite possible that these four stories are as related to each\nother as the four island/doctor/death stories are.\n\n=mantis="
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