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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/788",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 788,
    "subject": "Green's cover",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-03-02T14:47:16+00:00",
    "last": "2000-03-07T13:22:30+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0272@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-02T14:47:16+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Green's cover",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The cover of Tor's IN GREEN'S JUNGLES is now viewable\non amazon.com. Jim Burns has, if anything, done an\neven more lurid job this time; the Neighbor looks like\none of Vance's Pnume, or Phung, or whatever."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0273@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Henley",
        "address": "jhenley at nas-corp.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-07T13:22:30+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (whorl) Green's Cover",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0272@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Alastair Reynolds [mailto:areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl]\nSent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:54 AM\nTo: whorl at lists.best.com\nSubject: Re: (whorl) Green's Cover\n\n\nAlga:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Mr. Gethers announced:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "The cover of Tor's IN GREEN'S JUNGLES is now viewable\non amazon.com. Jim Burns has, if anything, done an\neven more lurid job this time; the Neighbor looks like\none of Vance's Pnume, or Phung, or whatever."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "You would certainly remove the cover if you planned\nto read the book\nin a public place."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Perhaps there should be a law saying that all lurid covers should be\nprinted on the back with something sober and respectable - \"10 secrets\nof success in business management\" or something, so they can reversed\nfor use in public.\n\nWolfe's a difficult one though isn't he -\nthe writing is of such excellent literary merit that you feel he\nought to have a nice, tasteful up-market cover with no\nhorrible SF things\non it -  on the other hand, his work is crammed full of nifty\nstuff for artists to illustrate..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Since one of the things literature does is help us see through false value\nsystems, why not start with this one? A fear of being seen reading a book\nwith \"lurid covers\" is prissy. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.\n\nBest,\n\n\nJim\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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