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  "thread": {
    "id": 1084,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v012.n033",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-02-01T03:35:51+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-01T03:35:51+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0103@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Timothy Reilly",
        "address": "treilly at ozemail.com.au"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-01T03:35:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v012.n033",
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          "text": "Michael Straight asked of IGJ:"
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          "text": "Is this Wolfe's most didactic book?  I don't mean it reads like he's\npreaching at us, but Horn seems to make far more observations and speeches\nabout what is right than I can recall from any other Wolfe character, even\nSilk."
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          "text": "I confess that this is one of the things I disliked about IGJ - a certain\nsententiousness from Horn is his disquisitions about life, family\nrelationships et al.  I couldn't help thinking that it was meant to be wise\ncounsel from Wolfe, though the effect for me was more like Polonius's advice\nto Hamlet ie vacuous cliches presented as insightful.  Maybe I'm wrong in\ninterpreting Horn's wise words in this fashion, and I've yeat to reread IGJ\nso it might not irritate in the same way in future.  But in short, I did\nthink it was didactic and I didn't like it.\n\nTim\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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