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  "thread": {
    "id": 1376,
    "subject": "The Eyeflash Miracles",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-02-19T11:51:18+00:00",
    "last": "1999-02-19T11:51:18+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0023-0082@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jack Lyons",
        "address": "revjack at radix.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-19T11:51:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: The Eyeflash Miracles",
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          "text": "On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, William H. Ansley wrote:\n\n:There is a *lot* of Christic imagery in \"The Eyeflash\n:Miracles,\" as I note in my first posting. I am deliberately\n:ignoring this, except occasionally when it ties in with the\n:Oz imagery. Wolfe manages to combine the two in clever and\n:complex ways, as you might expect. This doesn't mean I\n:don't welcome your comments; I do. And I would be glad to\n:hear from anyone else who wants to comment on Christic\n:imagery in \"The Eyeflash Miracles.\" \n\nIs \"Christic\" really a word? :)\n\nMy wife likes to use the term \"Beatlesque\" sometimes, when\ndescribing a piece of music, because it reminds her of a\nBeatles song. \n\nUnfortunately, The Beatles have created music in nearly\nevery genre imaginable - rock, heavy metal, classical,\nsoul, R&B, ambient, experimental - there's very little that\nthey haven't done. So \"Beatlesque\" doesn't really mean\nanything, if you think about it. What's \"Beatlesque\"?\nEverything, that's what.\n\nLikewise Christian/Trinity imagery and metaphor. The Bible\nhas so many stories, lessons, admonitions, hints, rules,\nquotes and narrative situations that one could concievably\napply a Christian interpretation to anything one cares to.\nName a story - any story - and I'll detail the Christian\nmetaphor within.\n\n(This tends to be where Theists and Atheists part ways,\nwith Theists declaring that this means that everything is\nspecial, and Atheists saying that if everything is special,\nthen nothing is special.)\n\nChristian imagery in \"The Eyeflash Miracles\"? Sure, I'll buy\nthat."
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