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  "thread": {
    "id": 284,
    "subject": "Ask the Wolfe",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-05-14T09:07:36+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-14T09:07:36+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0267@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-14T09:07:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Ask the Wolfe",
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          "text": "This is like being a kid in a candy store, but with only one quarter to\nspend!\n\n\"Was what Silk saw in the manteion Pike's ghost, or an aquastor, or\nwhat?\"\n\nand \"What about...\"  No, no, I'll restrain myself.  I can do it...  I'll\nsave the other 800 questions for another time.\n\nThis could be a lot of fun, and it's very kind of Mr. Wolfe to do it.\n\n     -vizcacha\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)\n\np.s. to Patrick:  Agree wholeheartedly about _There Are Birds_. Have you\ntried _Humpty Dumpty: An Oval_?  I'll have to check out _God's Fires_,\nas I loved _Cold Allies_ and _Brother Termite_, but haven't read any\nother Patricia Anthony since.\n\np.p.s: Bonus question for Gene Wolfe: \"How long have you been wearing a\nmoustache?\" (Saw a picture of him with same in SF Chronicle; he hasn't\nalways had one, has he?) Try to be oracular about that one!\n\np.p.p.s: mantis, if you run out of questions (hah!), send him my\ncompilation of mysteries, literary or whorlographic."
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