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  "thread": {
    "id": 1335,
    "subject": "The Dispossessed",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-04-11T00:49:26+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-11T08:36:13+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0566@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-11T00:49:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) The Dispossessed",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "To what Alex says, I can only add:\n\nI'm not surprised Wolfe didn't like THE DISPOSSESSED.\nTBSS is all the more, then, his new improved version.\n\nAnd: Alex, you hit the nail on the head: it's not GW\nwho's tired of the series, it's Horn who's tired of\nwriting. Alga and other dissidents take note.\n\n--Nick Gevers."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Alex David Groce wrote:\nI'll add that I agree with Wolfe about THE\nDISPOSSESSED.  It plus THE\nLEFT HAND OF DARKNESS stands as my examplar of how\neven when the prose\nquality is uniformly excellent, a writer can vary\nwildly in quality.\n\nAlso, I still like Short Sun despite remaining\nclueless about the many\napparent red herrings it introduces.  The emotional\nimpact didn't feel\nforced or as if he were tired of the series to\nme--although it did\nfeel as if Silk/Horn was tired of writing."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0571@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-11T08:36:13+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) The Dispossessed",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0012-0566@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Nicholas Gevers wrote:\nAnd: Alex, you hit the nail on the head: it's not GW\nwho's tired of the series, it's Horn who's tired of\nwriting. Alga and other dissidents take note."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Or Horn who's fading away...\n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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