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  "thread": {
    "id": 2887,
    "subject": "The Ring and the Claw",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-01-06T18:28:42+00:00",
    "last": "2002-01-06T18:28:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0031-urth.v031.n027.1@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "wolfe-lists at danrabin.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-01-06T18:28:42+00:00",
      "subject": "The Ring and the Claw",
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          "text": "With respect to the recent discussion on Tolkien's influence on \nWolfe, I'd like to propose that the Claw of the Conciliator is, in \nsome respects, a Wolfean reversal of the One Ring:\n\nThe Ring is the lingering talisman of evil; the Claw is a talisman of good.\nThe Ring weighs Frodo down; the Claw sometimes presses Severian onward.\nThe Ring enslaves; the Claw heals.\nThe Ring makes invisible; the Claw gives light.\nFrodo wants to conceal the Ring from its owner and destroy it; \nSeverian wants to restore the Claw to its (perceived) owners and \npreserve it.\nThe Ring is secret; the Claw is (presumably) displayed on the altar \nof the Pelerines.\n\nThere are also similarities:\n\nBoth objects are accidentally acquired by the respective protagonists.\nBoth objects are a burden to their bearers.\n\nI'm not sure that this list shows anything more than a shared \n\"ancient talisman\" motif, but I've always at least found Severian's \nsense of pressure from the Claw reminiscent of Frodo's experience \nwith the Ring.\n\n   -- Dan Rabin"
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