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  "thread": {
    "id": 918,
    "subject": "In Green's Cover",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-08-09T17:35:15+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-09T22:47:08+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0072@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "akt",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-09T17:35:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) In Green's Cover",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Got the book today and brought it home. And hid it from my houseguest!\nWhoa--that cover! An amalgam of Ben Franklin and Joe Lieberman takes a\nstroll with an octopoidal Highwayman! No, I couldn't face the (at best)\npolitely raised eyebrows or (worse) outright snickering that would have\nbeen my lot had this been openly displayed!\n\n-alga\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0079@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-09T22:47:08+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) In Green's Cover",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0011-0072@digest.urth.net>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Got the book today and brought it home. And hid it from my houseguest!\nWhoa--that cover! An amalgam of Ben Franklin and Joe Lieberman takes a\nstroll with an octopoidal Highwayman! No, I couldn't face the (at best)\npolitely raised eyebrows or (worse) outright snickering that would have\nbeen my lot had this been openly displayed!\n\n-alga"
        },
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          "text": "I agree, as I think many, if not all, reading this do. The IGJ cover \nmakes the OBW cover look, well, less bad in comparison.\n\nIt would have been very easy to make attractive, elegant and (I would \nthink) inexpensive covers for the three books. Make each book's cover \na single photograph, with the title and author superimposed in a \ncontrasting color. For OBW, an aerial view of an empty expanse of \nocean; for IGJ, an aerial view of a solid jungle canopy; for RTTW, a \nstar field. It may turn out that my third cover is inappropriate when \nthe book actually comes out and I am sure that no one else will be as \nfond of these cover ideas as I am, but most of you will probably \nagree that it would be an improvement.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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          "text": "William Ansley\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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