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  "thread": {
    "id": 3843,
    "subject": "Castaway, Doors, and the Ancient Mariner",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2003-02-10T14:59:14+00:00",
    "last": "2003-02-10T14:59:14+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0302-2919@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "StoneOx17",
        "address": "stoneox17 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-02-10T14:59:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Castaway, Doors, and the Ancient Mariner",
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          "text": "I think Charles Reed is absolutely right when he sees echoes of  the \nAncient Mariner in Castaway.  I just want to comment that the Ancient \nMariner is also referenced a couple of times in TAD, as well.  First, at \nthe Grand Hotel, when Green sees a ship motionless, fighting a headwind, \nthis makes him think of a poem: \"A teacher had read it to him in school:\n'As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.'\"  Second, when he\nis thinking about streetcars, he thinks \"They had been cheap, energy \nefficient, and nonpolluting.  Yet they had been done away with, and a \nhundred harmful gadgets had been allowed to stay.\"  To my ear, this \nechoes Coleridge:\nThe many men, so beautiful! / And they all dead did lie:\nAnd a thousand thousand slimy things / lived on; and so did I.\n\nOne thematic parallel of The Ancient Mariner to TAD seems fairly \nclear:  Green's life is going nowhere until he finds religion/meaning/Lara.\nI don't see any further connections of the poem to There Are Doors, but \nthey may just be more deeply hidden.\n\n--Stone Ox"
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