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  "thread": {
    "id": 656,
    "subject": "Writing",
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    "first": "1999-10-04T10:25:25+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-04T10:25:25+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0057@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-04T10:25:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Writing",
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          "text": "Patrick O'Leary writes:\n<<But then there was that unspoken agenda which Nettle intuited--\"They don't\nwant us to write anymore.\" Not sure I get that.>>\n\nHorn gives a short summary of the reception his (and Nettle's) book has\nreceived.  The precis is that it has been much more popular than he expected it\nto be.  (It might sell as many twenty copies! -- Does anyone else see a wry\ncomment on the publishing industry here?)\n\nHorn's experiences have made him less sure of the Vironese faith that he\nappeared to be in TBotLS.  We might guess that Silk's doubt is one component of\nthat, a doubt well-presented in _The Book of Silk_.  So, it isn't much of leap\nto see the book as a socially disruptive force, one that the local\npowers-that-be would just as soon see silenced.  In fact, they might have been\nhappier to see Nettle, she of the \"small, neat hand,\" go on the expedition.\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."
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