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  "thread": {
    "id": 1322,
    "subject": "Silk & St. Francis",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-01-11T14:53:56+00:00",
    "last": "1999-01-11T14:53:56+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0022-0077@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-01-11T14:53:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Silk & St. Francis",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Alex David Groce wrote:\n\tAlso, read Chesterton's ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, and wondered if anyone\nelse found it plausible that Silk's (brief and unsuccesssful) career as burglar\nwas inspired in part by St. Francis' attempt to repair a ruined chapel with\nmoney stolen from his father--Chesterton concentrates quite a bit on the event\nand its meanings, and I'm certain Wolfe's read the book...  The relevant\nmaterial is in Chapter IV of the book, especially p. 54 of the Image edition...\nIf it is a source, then Silk really is a very Chesterton-influenced figure\n(given the obvious Father Brown heritage)."
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          "text": "I think someone mentioned this a while back, but the other parallel\nbetween Silk and St. Francis is that St. Francis had a vision from God\nwhich he initially interpreted literally as telling him to rebuild a\nparticular chapel, but later came to understand as a commission to help\n\"rebuild\" the Church through his missionary order.  Silk's theophany is\nsimilarly a wider commission than merely saving a few buildings.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
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