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  "thread": {
    "id": 1315,
    "subject": "Hybrid Vigor (doh!)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-03T16:23:24+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-03T16:23:24+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0529@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-03T16:23:24+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Hybrid Vigor (doh!)",
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          "text": "I can't find it in the archives, but I could have sworn there was someone\ncomplaining about Horn going on and on about corn genetics at the\nbeginning of OBW. I'd forgotten all about it until I started looking at\nOBW for the second time, and here it is, Wolfe laying out the theme of the\nwhole series in the first chapter.\n\nI note that hybrids are stronger than the original strains, but ultimately\na dead end, requiring you to go back to the original.\n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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