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  "thread": {
    "id": 739,
    "subject": "One question answered.",
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    "first": "1999-11-27T00:00:57+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-27T00:00:57+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0193@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-27T00:00:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) One question answered.",
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          "text": "If I recall, when we discusses long sun the question of the literary\npurpose of the long drawn-out description of the mechancial engineering\nprocess of talus production came up.  Horn's new book at least gives us a\nfuller explanation of this than \"Wolfe is an engineer by trade\". Horn\nalludes to his purposes in making the Book of Silk have a utilitarian\nfunction for those on the short sun who may need some of the long sun\nknow-how.\n\n\"I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, |  paul           + | +\nelated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I    |                 --|--\nhave to transmit my mental experiences lest I die.\" |                 + | +\n                     --  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy    |  pduggan at world.std.com\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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