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  "thread": {
    "id": 2112,
    "subject": "The Man in the Pepper Mill",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-02-02T15:18:58+00:00",
    "last": "2000-02-02T15:18:58+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0770@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at coredcs.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-02T15:18:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Man in the Pepper Mill",
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          "text": "My spin on \"The Man in the Pepper Mill\" is, of course, unorthodox.\n\nI believe it's more about the war between the sexes than anything\nspiritual.\n\nConsider both the pepper mill and the light house: each overtly phallic\nsymbols and therefore totems of masculinity. Tippy--a boy named after a\n_female_ writer, for cryingoutloud, and with no pater--needs a dad. Buster\nHill--whose leg wound recalls the Fisher King (and the extended metaphor of\nsexual mutilation)--symbolically represents the man Tippy may grow into if\nhe doesn't find proper male guidance. (Mr. Hill is also very wary about\nwomen--hence imagines himself a 'bust her,' or conquering sex hero.) In\nfact, Tippy already envisions himself trapped in a doll house and the\nplaything of girlz. (A Calvin fantasy, for sure. Where's Hobbes when he\nneeds him?) And the thing that struck me about the stegosaur was its\npinkness; given its well known spiked tail, perhaps a vagina dentata image.\nWhen Mom screams at the end, however, it's not because she sees a giant\npink dinosaur; it's because the earthquake has shattered Cathy's\ndollhouse--perhaps signaling some hope for Tippy.\n\nAnybody care to speculate how Cathy died? Tippy has no memories of\nlingering illness, so apparently it's sudden. And what about Mom's remark\nabout Grandma? Has she drowned?\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n\n  "
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