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  "thread": {
    "id": 2735,
    "subject": "Borges and PEACE",
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    "first": "2001-07-20T20:38:50+00:00",
    "last": "2001-07-20T20:38:50+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0564@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-07-20T20:38:50+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Borges and PEACE",
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          "text": "From: Dan <meliza at OCF.Berkeley.EDU>\nDate: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:54:44 -0700 (PDT)\nI don't know what the consensus is on the \nending of the novel, but I\ntook Weer's remark about waking, in the context \nof the Chinese garden\ndream, to mean either that he is at last waking \nto a higher, more\nrealized existence (as in the Borges tale - I \nforget the title - of\nthe man who dies and only after a series of \nnightmares realizes that\nhe has in fact been in heaven all along)"
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          "text": "This doesn't ring a bell with me, and I've read \nBorges' collected stories (though it could have \njust slipped my mind).  The closest thing to it I can \nthink of is a story Borges took from Swedenborg \n(it appeared in The Universal History of Infamy \nand in the Borges co-edited Book of Fantasy, iirc), \nwhich I'd mentioned on this list before.  But in that \nstory the dead man is in hell, not heaven.\n\n--Adam"
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