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  "thread": {
    "id": 1603,
    "subject": "Deciphering the Divine",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-04-30T06:10:18+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-30T06:10:18+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0069@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "potto at webmail.co.za"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-30T06:10:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Deciphering the Divine",
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          "text": "Our discussion of the religious or non-religious nature of Wolfe's\nwork has certainly become complexly and compulsively interesting.\nNoting Jonathan Laidlow's comments on TBOTNS as a text not to be taken\ntoo concretely or literally: I don't quite agree. To reiterate\nsomething I've said before: although Wolfe's subject matter is\nprimarily religious and so symbolic or non-literal, he does play a\nvast, subtle game of clues. Wolfe's God is in the subtle, precise,\ninsinuated details of his work; deciphering those details is crucial\nto a proper, complex understanding of that work. When Robert Borski\nengages in close, literal literary detective work, or when people\ndebate the precise nature of Jonas' and Sidero's physical character,\nthey are doing precisely what Wolfe intends: drawing out the myriad\ndetails out of which the shape of God can be discerned.\n//--------------------------------------\nNicholas Gevers\npotto at webmail.co.za"
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