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  "thread": {
    "id": 2042,
    "subject": "The God & His Man / Authors",
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    "first": "1999-12-17T13:29:32+00:00",
    "last": "1999-12-17T13:29:32+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0644@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-17T13:29:32+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) The God & His Man / Authors",
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          "text": "mantis says:"
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          "text": "Speaking of authorial context, if this story was written by Michael\nMoorcock my interpretation of it would be relatively cut and dry--I have\nread enough Moorcock work that is a variation on this theme, so that I\nwouldn't give it a second thought.  Elric and Arioch, that sort of thing:\nwe might call it \"Elric's Revenge.\"  When Moorcock takes a swipe at Big\nReligion it is often targeted at Roman Catholicism, but sometimes all of\nChristianity.  The name of the god seems rather close to a swipe at the\nJews, which seems uncharacteristic of Moorcock, so I'd transfer this to the\nearly Christian church (and we're back to Catholic bashing).  (I can't\nthink of a case where Moorcock writes positively about any religion.)"
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          "text": "I tend to think of \"Behold the Man\" as being less anti-religious than a lot\nof Moorcock that seems less directly critical of religion.  Certainly not\npositive, per se, but more nuanced than a first reading indicates.  \n\n\nIn general, the author is alive and kicking until the day people cease to\nuse information about what the author has written/said/claimed to desire/etc.\nin the past to help them shape their conception of anything he writes/says\nafterwards.  Since we automatically do this with other people, and unless we\nall become Latros are probably going to keep doing so, I suspect the author\nwill be in good shape for many years to come.  Certainly the \"author\" of\npublishing/etc. is a \"new\" thing, and different with the changing media of\nthe ages (insert random mandatory Marshall McLuhan observation) but the \ncreating force behind a text/story is a very old concept--it's not as if\npost-Gutenberg thinkers made up Homer.\n\n\n\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32"
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          "text": "Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce"
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