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  "thread": {
    "id": 400,
    "subject": "Defending Questions",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-07-12T15:04:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-07-12T15:04:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0007-0517@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-07-12T15:04:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Defending Questions",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #5920451 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#\n\nDavid Langford,\n\n(Yes, LOL on one answer, teeth gnashing on another--I'm sure that\nmost of us are in the same boat.  Different answers, of course <g>,\nbut still.)\n\nNow I know you didn't mean to suggest that there was a \"dumb\nquestion\" on the list, but I'm going to defend it as if you actually\nsaid it.\n\nEach one in our little cell, reading over our Wolfe books, individually\nand alone we think we know what the story is.  We are each reading\nour own version.  Of course there are differences of interpretation and\nopinion, but these aren't exposed until we start to yak about it all.\n\nLooking back, we might look askance at Manlove for his early essay\non TBOTNS which clearly failed to grasp that Dorcas is Severian's\ngramma, since this is something presented right there in the text,\nquite near to the surface.  However, to cut the guy some slack,\nTBOTNS =is=, after all, a big book awash with a myriad of details.\n\nOTOH, how many people have discovered the secret origin of \"Suzanne\nDelage,\" a quiet little story in ENDANGERED SPECIES?  I mean: I\nfigured something out (largely by accident, as per usual) and asked a\nlot of people if they'd spotted anything intratextual (it really is a\nneedle in a haystack) and then (when none of them had seen it) told\nthem what I'd found.\n\nWell, anyway, now all readers of this mailing list have been primed\nto ask Gene Wolfe questions in person at any of the conventions he\ngoes to.\n\n=mantis="
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