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  "thread": {
    "id": 618,
    "subject": "Pleading Ignorance",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-07-04T17:58:28+00:00",
    "last": "1999-07-04T17:58:28+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0012@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigelprice1 at compuserve.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-07-04T17:58:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Pleading Ignorance",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "-Ozma of Oz-, published in the early years of this century \n(and a book we're pretty sure Wolfe has read, given \"Eyeflash\"), \nhas an underlake bubble-dome city operated by a sort of\nhydraulic lift; it had little submarines too. "
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          "text": "I have only ever read the first of the Oz books, and really must get round\nto reading some of the later volumes in the series.  Motifs from these\nworks seem to have entered Wolfe's stories by some form of Ozmosis.\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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