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  "thread": {
    "id": 106,
    "subject": "Changeling",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-07-17T12:27:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-07-17T12:27:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0002-0169@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ron Crown",
        "address": "crownrw at slu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-07-17T12:27:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Changeling",
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          "text": "Thanks to Nutria and Mantis for your respective tours de force of\nChangeling.  A couple of additional observations to buttress the\nCatholic Church scenario:  in addition to the reference to \"papa's\"\ninfallibility, there may be a reference to Mariolatry (as it might\nappear to some outside the Catholic church) in the statement that \"mama\"\nPalmieri often appeared to dominate \"papa.\"  I don't see papa Palmieri\nas Jesus or God; in Rome the pope is \"il papa.\"  No luck on connecting\neither Cassonsville or Kanakassee with the St. Louis region (I checked a\ngazetteer) but is the Cassonsville Tourist Lodge code for the CaToLic\nchurch?  Peter's impulsive action in stabbing the frog could also be\nparalleled by the apostle Peter's action in the garden of Gethsemene\n(the apostle is traditionally noted for his changeable nature and\nimpulsive action; note the three denials of Christ).\n\nAnother question:  why are grasshoppers mentioned twice?  The first\ntime, it's describing the sign on the cafe attached to the motel (the\nsign says EAT \"like Buddha commanding the grasshopper\") and, later, as\nPaul and \"Pete\" are walking out to the river, \"Grasshoppers fled in\nwaves before [them] through the dry grass.\"\n\nAnd if character names are so important in this story (as they appear to\nbe), what does anyone make of \"Ernie Cotha?\"\n\nRon Crown\ncrownrw at slu.edu"
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