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  "thread": {
    "id": 1401,
    "subject": "other observations and prufrock",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-03-01T15:05:16+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-01T15:05:16+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0027@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ibmth.df.unipi.it"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-01T15:05:16+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) other observations and prufrock",
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          "text": "I would tend to caution against seeing Prufrock as anyone too specific ---\nhe may well be a horny old man, but Eliot is saying `there's a lot of it\nabout'.  To me he stands for all (or much of) the impotence and apathy of\nthe modern world, just as, for example, the `small house agent's clerk' in\nthe Wasteland (`one of the poor on whom assurance sits Like a silk hat on a\nBradford millionaire', not guaranteed to be an exact quotation) stands for\nits degeneration and pettiness.\n\nFor that reason, I don't think there are many general structural resonances\nbetween Prufrock and Wolfe, even Peace, since Wolfe's major characters\noften have wide-reaching, if subtle, effects on the universes of the novels\n--- Weer certainly does, however negative they may seem in retrospect; if\nWeer's tale is of being part of other people's stories (which is a very\nnice idea), then to a lot of them he's been a golem in the gears, which\nPrufrock was never capable of being.  But I'm agog to hear any specific\nthoughts.\n\ntill human voices wake us,\ncorncrake"
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          "text": "Peter Stephenson <pws at ibmth.df.unipi.it>       Tel: +39 050 844536\nWWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/\nDipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy"
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