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  "thread": {
    "id": 1165,
    "subject": "Random thoughts on Forlesen",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-10-13T08:05:42+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-13T08:05:42+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0101@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-13T08:05:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Random thoughts on Forlesen",
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nThese are just some random observations and thoughts on the story\n\"Forlesen.\"\n\nI was recently asked why Mr. Frick doesn't seem to age and remembers\nhis youth and past, unlike Forlesen.  I'm not completely sure that\nanyone outside of Forlesen's family has the problems that he does, but\nit's possible that Frick is meant to be an English form of\nFricco/Frey(r), the Norse god of youth.\n\nWhen Forlesen looks in the red book, he reads about the types of the\ndead and death.  The translation lists 12 different types.  One of\nthose is types are in either torment or pleasure.  It seems odd that\nthose two would be grouped together into one type when there are so\nmany.  If they were two separate types, there would be thirteen types.\n Elsewhere in the book, 13 is mentioned by Beale as the number of\nchildren his parents had, of which he is the oldest member.  The first\ntype mentioned in the book is \"those for whom new worlds are created.\"\n Of course, perhaps pleasure or pain is merely different in the eye of\nthe beholder, like sado-masochism.  S&M in the text is used to\nabbreviate supervisory and managerial, which is the type of job\nForlesen has.  The clock he punches is beige (\"not brown\") and perhaps\nthis is meant to show the racial divide between blacks and whites. \nForlesen says that the translation on one side of the book can't be\nright, because the size of sections greatly differ in some instances. \nThis is not necessarily true.  English is very different than other\nlanguages in how long its constructions can be.  For example, \"first\ncome, first serve\" would be quite a long sentece or modifying phrase\nin Welsh, and many other languages.  Thus, \"And finally, those who\nsleep\" might be a very long sentence in the translated language\nForlesen sees.  Conversely, the long English phrase about the\nfrolicking dead might be only one word in the translated language,\nsomething like \"Elysian.\"\n\nprion"
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