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  "thread": {
    "id": 183,
    "subject": "more Wolfe on Q&D",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-04-10T20:15:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-10T20:15:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0027@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-10T20:15:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) more Wolfe on Q&D",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #2545266 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#\n\nHere's the latest from Gene Wolfe:\n\n\"Your own THE QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE TO THE LONG SUN WHORL has been\nvery valuable to me in the writing of THE BOOK OF THE SHORT SUN.  I\nowe you thanks and offer them.  You may quote me. [Yay!]\n\n\"Auk is not a member of \"Blood's Gang.\" [Wolfe is probably referring\nto the Power Groups Table, p. 34-36]  As a member of Viron's\nunderwhorl he knows Blood, naturally.  Orchid, on the other hand, is\nclearly and simply a subordinate of Blood's; he is the real owner of\nthe yellow house, and sends Silk there to exorcise it. [I put Auk on\nthe Blood list because he seems to have lied to Silk about his\ncontacts with Blood--Blood's monitor knows Auk quite well.]\n\n\"To the best of my memory, that azoth has a hyacinth in the hilt,\nwhile the demon (the stone one presses to turn on the force beam) is\na bloodstone (p. 3).  [This shoots down my speculations that the stone,\nthought to be a bloodstone, was actually a tawny hyacinth\nstone--linking the azoth-as-gift to Hyacinth rather than Blood.  I'll\nhave to look for the hyacinths on the hilt, but offhand that sounds\nmore like the needler Crane gave to Hy.]\n\n\"The Prolocutor's Palace, the Grand Manteion, and the Calde's Palace\nare all on the Palatine, that is to say, on a single hill which they\nall share with Ermine's and the mansions of the commissioners and\nsome other rich people; thus the streets are narrow, and the\nbuildings are tall but not wide.  Everything uphill is necessarily\nquite close together.  Note that neither the Juzgado nor the\nAlambrera are up there.\" [referring to the map on inside back cover.\nI meant to suggest that the Juzgado was at the base of the hill, but\nmaybe my \"hill lines\" were too sketchy.  Granted there's too much\nroom on the hill as I've drawn it--but there are physical\nlimitations, as well as conceptual ones! <g>  \"But which street has\nthe proper position for =Gold= street?  And where, oh where, is the\nAlameda?\" I silently whine.]\n\nColor me quite the happy camper.\n\n=mantis=\n\nP.S. vizcacha--glad to have you onboard the \"Pike Aquastor\" bandwagon.\nAlga won't come onboard anytime soon since she's the one who came up with\nthe very interesting Quetzal-as-Pike theory.\n\n=m="
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