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  "thread": {
    "id": 713,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v010.n045",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-11-08T15:08:28+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-08T15:08:28+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0153@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Bjjp2",
        "address": "bjjp2 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-08T15:08:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n045",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I think that criticisms of John Clute's style ignore\nthe fact that he is (unlike most critics) an original\nprose stylist. His innovative, if sometimes contorted,\nwriting has vastly enriched SF criticism, not only\nbecause of his cogent insights, but because he has\nunlocked a critical vocabulary equal to the complete\nexpression of those insights. He has his clumsy and\ninattentive moments, but I'd rather have him review\nOBW than leave the task to pedestrian hacks like the\nauthors of certain other published reviews cited on\namazon."
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          "text": "I read Clute's review and was very surprised at the poor writing.  I know, \nwho am I to criticize, but c'mon:  \"They are, to begin with, each of them, \nregardless of the number of volumes they were broken into for easy \npublication, a single novel.\"  Three clauses between \"they are\" and \"a single \nnovel\"? Using the adjective \"vast\" twice in the same sentence (and three \ntimes in the review)?  Perhaps college freshmen who get a \"D\" on their \nEnglish papers can say,  \"But professor, you don't understand.  I am 'an \noriginal prose stylist.'\"\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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