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  "thread": {
    "id": 261,
    "subject": "a Wolfe league",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-04-20T14:28:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-20T14:28:00+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0235@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-20T14:28:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) a Wolfe league",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #6714097 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET#\n\nRe: linear measure, FWIW: \"In this book, _league_ designates\na distance of about three miles\" (THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR,\nsecond appendix).\n\nRe: \"Starcross\" and \"Starcrosser\"; I doubt that Gene Wolfe has played\nany computer games since he still doesn't have a computer; OTOH, I\nknow that he wasn't the one who came up with \"Starcrosser's\nLandfall,\" so it doesn't matter that he probably hasn't played\n\"Starcross,\" and it becomes quite possible that the \"Starcrosser\"\noriginator either played it or had second-hand knowledge of it.  If\nwe find David Hartwell, Gene Wolfe's editor, at a convention we can\nemploy subtle interrogation.\n\n=mantis="
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