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  "thread": {
    "id": 155,
    "subject": "Opinions R \"=\"",
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    "first": "1997-03-12T02:02:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-12T02:02:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0220@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-12T02:02:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Opinions R \"=\"",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #8972481 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET#\n\nNot that I want to dictate the direction of conversation or anything\nlike that, but as this is a democracy, I would like to register a\nvote against threads going into the whys and wherefores an individual\nlikes a given Wolfe work less than the others, or even (especially?)\nwhen a reader might actively dislike a given work.\n\nMore likely than not, it boils down to personal preference and\nopinion.  I'm sure we all rank the different elements that make up\nthe ziggurat of Wolfe's work in our own ways--I know I have my favorites\nand least favorites.  And all opinions are equally valid as\nopinions--they don't even have to be particularly text-based.  And as\nwe have seen in recent discussions about THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN,\neven when theories and speculations are rather intricately\ntext-based, even then there is hardly any consensus . . . because\nagain, despite all the citations, references, research, et cetera,\nit boils down to opinion.\n\n(Which sure seems to be the deathknell for intricately text-based\ninterpretation! <g>)\n\nI would much rather see people go on and on about why they love a\nparticular text (thank you, Talon!  And I agree with you re: the\nPKDickian flavor of THERE ARE DOORS) than watch a thread wind down\nthe perilous greased chute of why someone hates a particular text.\n\nJust my two bits, as we say in Viron.\n\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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