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  "thread": {
    "id": 70,
    "subject": "Severian (the torturer) on writing",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2009-01-16T19:30:30+00:00",
    "last": "2009-01-16T22:44:41+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<Xns9B957510DD032damouthsanrrcom@69.16.186.8>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Daniel Damouth",
        "address": "damouth at san.rr.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-01-16T19:30:30+00:00",
      "subject": "Severian (the torturer) on writing",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I'm reading _The Book of the New Sun_ for the first time, and laughed \nat this:\n\n\"I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have \nprogressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as \nmight be thought.\"\n\n-from _Shadow of the Torturer_"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<03ecab97-da97-4c28-a34b-df99bc9450d6@y1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "htn963",
        "address": "htn963 at live.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-01-16T20:06:50+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Severian (the torturer) on writing",
      "in_reply_to": "<Xns9B957510DD032damouthsanrrcom@69.16.186.8>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Jan 16, 11:30=A0am, Daniel Damouth <damo... at san.rr.com> wrote:\nI'm reading _The Book of the New Sun_ for the first time, and laughed\nat this:\n\n\"I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have\nprogressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as\nmight be thought.\"\n\n-from _Shadow of the Torturer_"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Reading Severian is torture.  It was the occasional vivid scenes and\nwell-realized inventions which made Wolfe's BOTNS series worth reading\nfor me, not the author's mannerly prose or his protagonist.  (Vance\ndoes it much better.)  In this instance, substance triumphed over\nstyle."
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ht"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<gkr2lk$hi3$1@news.motzarella.org>",
      "from": {
        "name": "wjtingle",
        "address": "wjtingle at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-01-16T22:44:41+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Severian (the torturer) on writing",
      "in_reply_to": "<Xns9B957510DD032damouthsanrrcom@69.16.186.8>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Daniel Damouth wrote:\nI'm reading _The Book of the New Sun_ for the first time, and laughed \nat this:\n\n\"I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have \nprogressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as \nmight be thought.\"\n\n-from _Shadow of the Torturer_"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "No argument from me. I got to the end of the first book and pronounced a \nDouble Dorothy on all Wolfe's writing, in perpetuity.\n\nRegards,\nJack Tingle"
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