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  "thread": {
    "id": 834,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v010.n115",
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    "first": "2000-06-08T06:59:24+00:00",
    "last": "2000-06-08T06:59:24+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0348@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Timothy Reilly",
        "address": "treilly at ozemail.com.au"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-08T06:59:24+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n115",
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          "text": "Re Ultan's Library, congratulations to Jonathan Laidlow and all involved.\n\nI, like alga some time ago (I think?) was very impressed with Nick Gevers'\nessays on TBLS.  They made me want to go out and read it, and I had to\noccasionally remind myself that I already had and found it largely boring\nand disappointing.  Given the dominant theme of both essays, that TBLS is a\ndemonstration of the need for true religious belief, I wonder if being an\natheist has anything to do with my dislike of TBLS - there may be a\ncorrespondence!\n\nOn the other hand, if such was the theme of TBLS, OBW seemed to me to be\nmore questioning and doubting of religious beliefs.  (Then again, I like it\na lot, so maybe the correspondence holds).  Nick Price's review of OBW was\nalso a fine job (and needless to say I agree with the diplomatic criticisms\nit contains of the plotting of TBLS), but one point of detail - how do we\nknow Hari Mau was searchoing for Silk on the Whorl? - my impression is that\nhe was doing so on Blue only.\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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