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  "thread": {
    "id": 3924,
    "subject": "Fav. Quote",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-04-11T10:47:17+00:00",
    "last": "2003-04-11T10:47:17+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0304-3147@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at cox.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-04-11T10:47:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Fav. Quote",
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          "text": "The statement early in *Shadow* that \"we think that we invent symbols. In \nreality they invent us\" is priceless. I've used it many times, and seen it \nquoted by others also. (I'm sure it's familiar to you all, so I won't look \nit up and cite it all here.)\n         It ties in with recent discussions about Wolfe's view of human \nbehavior. If a bad person begins to symbolize himself as good, and \nplay-acts at being good, he may gradually become good. This is actually \nfrom Pascal, in a way. When asked, \"I don't feel like a Christian. I don't \nthink my heart is right\"; Pascal's advice was to act like a Christian, and \nyou'll find that you have become one.\n         My 2 cents.\n\nNutria"
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