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  "thread": {
    "id": 121,
    "subject": "F. Brown & Kipling",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-02-24T05:12:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-10T18:13:10+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0173@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-24T05:12:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) F. Brown & Kipling",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #3492356 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02#\n\nPatrick,\n\nYep, that Neil Gaiman is very talented, very productive, and a big\nfan of Gene Wolfe's, with all sorts of great insights.  I used to urge\nhim to write an essay or two, but he claimed \"intimidation\" (like you,\nclever fellow!) where I think the truth is there aren't enough hours\nin the day for the work he has to do.  And yep-yep, Neil was the first\none I recall mentioning the Father Brown angle for the Long Sun--dead\non target, imho.  He also has a neat theory regarding Thorne Smith\nnovels as keys to Wolfe novels--ask him next time!\n\nKipling, hmmm.  Last time I saw Gene Wolfe, I had the good fortune\n(no coincidences!) to have just finished reading a book of Kipling's\nshort stories, so we were able to chat about that for a while.  So\nyes, he does like Kipling a lot.  And Kipling is that sort of sneaky\nadventure/mystery/fable writer--jeez, just think about the Jungle\nBooks and the brown book!  But right off the bat I'm not sure\nhow it would be reflected in Long Sun.  Except for the tunnel gods,\nthe bufes, and the ashpiles, and the sense of being trapped in the\nland of the dead--that reminds me a great deal of one of the Kipling\nstories I was blathering on about to Gene.  (But the one we really got\ninto was \"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,\" which honestly seems like it should\nhave been written by Wolfe, it has so many things that he is so\ninterested in.)\n\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0213@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-10T18:13:10+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) F. Brown & Kipling",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0003-0173@digest.urth.net>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 05:12 AM 2/24/97 GMT, you wrote:\n\n[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]\n\nReply:  Item #3492356 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02#\n\nPatrick,\n\nYep, that Neil Gaiman is very talented, very productive, and a big\nfan of Gene Wolfe's, with all sorts of great insights. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "\tThe new edition of \"Bibliomen\" includes a chapter on Gaiman (or\npseudo-Gaiman)!\n\n\tBTW, lots of us Chesterton-lovers had noticed Father Brown in \"Nightside\"\non our own. So there!\n\nJBJordan\n\n\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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