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  "thread": {
    "id": 635,
    "subject": "On Blue's Waters [Wolfe self-reference?][no actual spoilers]",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-09-24T13:52:33+00:00",
    "last": "1999-09-25T10:00:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0030@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-24T13:52:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) On Blue's Waters [Wolfe self-reference?][no actual spoilers]",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Horn runs through other versions of Silk's story (Horn's is _The Book of the\nLong Sun_, commonly known as _The Book of Silk_).  One he mentions that he\nhasn't read was written by a man in the city of Urbasecundus, in English \"Second\nCity.\"  Now, what large city with that sobriquet does Wolfe live near?\n\n(I've read two chapters and already have several mysteries to think about, and\nat least one from tBotLS elucidated -- more on that later.)\n\n     --Dave Lebling\n     (aka vizcacha)\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0032@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alastair Reynolds",
        "address": "areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-25T10:00:25+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) On Blue's Waters [Wolfe self-reference?][no actual spoilers]",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0030@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Horn runs through other versions of Silk's story (Horn's is _The Book of the\nLong Sun_, commonly known as _The Book of Silk_).  One he mentions that he\nhasn't read was written by a man in the city of Urbasecundus, in English \"Second\nCity.\"  Now, what large city with that sobriquet does Wolfe live near?\n\n(I've read two chapters and already have several mysteries to think about, and\nat least one from tBotLS elucidated -- more on that later.)\n\n     --Dave Lebling\n     (aka vizcacha)"
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          "text": "So where does GW live? Is it Chicago?\n\nFunnily enough, (because I only noticed it yesterday) in the Fifth Head\nof Cerberus, he mentions a book called Monday or Tuesday, leaning against\na book on the assassination of Trotsky. Since the Trotsky book must have\nbeen written by Trotsky's bodyguard, Bernard \"Limbo\" Wolfe, I presume \nwe're meant to conclude that the other book, if they're filed\nalphabetically, is by GW...\n\nAl \n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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