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  "thread": {
    "id": 1375,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v022.n046",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-02-18T10:44:25+00:00",
    "last": "1999-02-18T23:03:50+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0023-0080@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Mullen",
        "address": "kieran at brigit.nhn.ou.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-18T10:44:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re:  Digest urth.v022.n046",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"William H. Ansley\" <wansley at warwick.net>\nSubject: The Wonderful Eyeflash of Oz, part 4\nDate: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:29:41 -0500"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "[Deletia]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Hearing this, Little Tib tries to remember what a leopard looks like but\ncannot. He then tries to visualize a cat. At first he cannot, but then he\nsucceeds and an image appears in front of him. But it is not a cat, but a\nlion standing on its hind legs with a red ribbon knotted in its mane. It is\ndancing and Little Tib joins it in the dance. After he has danced for some\ntime he is grabbed from behind by many hands. He realizes that he has been\ndancing in the air over the lookout point, with a very long drop below him."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "   This is Christic imagery, too.  From the temptation in the desert, where\nthe Devil quotes scripture about angels bearing up the messiah if he should\nfall.  IIRC, Tib casts demons out of the computer system, no?  \n\n   I slapped my head when I finally saw that Typhon's temptations of\nSeverian are just a replay of the temptations of Christ. (Food, casting\nfrom a height, all the cities stretched out before you if you submit\nto me.  Doh!)\n\n                      Kieran Mullen"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0023-0081@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-18T23:03:50+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re:  Digest urth.v022.n046",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0023-0080@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Kieran Mullen <kieran at brigit.nhn.ou.edu> wrote:\nHe realizes that he has been\ndancing in the air over the lookout point, with a very long drop below him."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "  This is Christic imagery, too.  From the temptation in the desert, where\nthe Devil quotes scripture about angels bearing up the messiah if he should\nfall.  IIRC, Tib casts demons out of the computer system, no?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Quite so. And you do recall correctly; I will be getting to the Gaderine\nComputer scene eventually.\n\nThere is a *lot* of Christic imagery in \"The Eyeflash Miracles,\" as I note\nin my first posting. I am deliberately ignoring this, except occasionally\nwhen it ties in with the Oz imagery. Wolfe manages to combine the two in\nclever and complex ways, as you might expect. This doesn't mean I don't\nwelcome your comments; I do. And I would be glad to hear from anyone else\nwho wants to comment on Christic imagery in \"The Eyeflash Miracles.\"\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
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