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  "thread": {
    "id": 1614,
    "subject": "The Author and the Iron Men",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-05-04T08:48:04+00:00",
    "last": "1999-05-04T08:48:04+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0086@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-04T08:48:04+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) The Author and the Iron Men",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Nicholas Gevers wrote:\nOri, you guffaw at my implication that God and Author operate\nsimilarly. But surely they do: if an overtly religious author like\nWolfe creates an imaginary future world and populates it with\ncharacters who enact deeply complex moral and spiritual dramas, he is\noperating very much in the manner of a Creator God (or, if you like,\nDemiurge); and his technique of narration (subliminal and subtle,\nteasing, testing, simultaneously merciful and cruel) is a metaphor for\nhow he believes our universe was created and structured."
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          "text": "On the other hand, see \"The Last Thrilling Wonder Story\" where the Author\nget's his comeuppance for taking that metaphor too seriously.\n\n-Rostrum"
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