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  "thread": {
    "id": 1235,
    "subject": "Wolfe, Religion, and You",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-26T20:00:42+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-26T20:00:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0368@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jacob Corbin",
        "address": "webmaster at afriendlysbooks.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-26T20:00:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Wolfe, Religion, and You",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Obnoxious, no, but I think we need a little more participation that focuses on the (often\nexplicit) religious side of Mr Wolfe's\nwriting. I often wonder what non-Christians see in him"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Well, I'm wholly secular, but why should that make me any less receptive to Wolfe's writing?\nAs SF&F, his writing does a wonderful job of deconstructing and brilliantly rethinking dozens\nof genre tropes.  The moral and ethical messages are delivered with almost overwhelmingly large\namounts of compassion, empathy, and intelligence.  And the prose itself is mad and beautiful\nand sexy and deliciously treacherous.  For all of that, I can grin through the occasional\nkludgy metaphor (\"Look, everyone!  It's THE EUCHARIST!  WOO!\").\n\nJacob G Corbin\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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