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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/151",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 151,
    "subject": "swing low, sweet chariot",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-08-14T11:54:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-08-15T18:15:43+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0233@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Cash",
        "address": "cash at rsn.hp.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-08-14T11:54:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) swing low, sweet chariot",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Alice Turner <al at ny.playboy.com> semaphored with her cilia:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Rock (that makes you a chem; sure you don't want to be Roc?)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "You have a PROBLEM with chems? And that's SERGEANT Rock to you, lady!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I'm going to make one last attempt at nailing \"Tracking Song,\" and then move\non. Unlike Nutria, I do think it's a religious story, on one level almost an\nallegory..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Yes! I think you're definitely going in the right direction here; this\nhelps me. Could it be (dare I bring this up? Is this perhaps what you\nwere thinking? ) that Cutthroat is a christ-figure? He's been cast down\ninto the fallen world, to share the suffering of its inhabitants--and\nultimately to die into a new life. Too pat, probably."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "...until what may be the moment of his death, at which\ntime the sought-for home appears. One may somewhat deplore the appearance of\na winged being but, in a story by a practicing Catholic, one can hardly\nignore it. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "If one reads this strictly as a science fiction story, then the sleigh\nis a death-bed hallucination. It can't be where it is--it can't have\ncircumnavigated (do sleighs navigate?) the world in the time available.\nThus, it has to be an illusion. But if this is a religious, allegorical\nstory, then the sleigh is something more: it's a divine or angelic\nvehicle, come to carry Cutthroat home. \n\nI have to resist the constant temptation to read Wolfe's stories as only\nwhat they superficially appear to be: science fiction tales. \n\nSgt. Rock\n\nP.S. Do you really work for Playboy, alga?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0239@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-08-15T18:15:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) swing low, sweet chariot",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0004-0233@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I'm going to make one last attempt at nailing \"Tracking Song,\" and then move\non. Unlike Nutria, I do think it's a religious story, on one level almost an\nallegory..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Yes! I think you're definitely going in the right direction here; this\nhelps me. Could it be (dare I bring this up? Is this perhaps what you\nwere thinking? ) that Cutthroat is a christ-figure? He's been cast down\ninto the fallen world, to share the suffering of its inhabitants--and\nultimately to die into a new life. Too pat, probably."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Just for the record, I did post a some Christ-figure suggestions in one of\nmy posts. Remember, that for Wolfe, Christians are living in imitation of\nChrist, so all of Wolfe's \"Christ figures\" are really \"Christian figures.\"\n\nIf my post on this did not go through, I can resend it.\n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    }
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