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  "thread": {
    "id": 402,
    "subject": "The Canocentric Exegesis of Wolfe's `Tracking Song'",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-03-03T20:04:43+00:00",
    "last": "1998-03-03T20:04:43+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0007-0594@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "danrabin at a.crl.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-03T20:04:43+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Canocentric Exegesis of Wolfe's `Tracking Song'",
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          "text": "This theory of David Lebling's is quite intriguing!\n\nHere are a couple more resonances:\n\n1.  The `lost dog finding its way home' motif resonates with the perception\nof death among some Christians as `going home to one's Maker'.\n\n2.  The winged beings as beyond-humans resonate with Wolfe's own\nHierogrammates, shaped by humans according to human ideals (`united,\ncompassionate, just') never actually achieved by the human race itself.\n\nI can't quite draw an exact analogy, but I'm always willing to believe that\nWolfe often works impressionistically rather than with exacting exactness.\nI think he's willing to deviate slightly from his clever constructs in\norder to deliver a haunting image or a well-timed surprise.\n\n  -- Dan Rabin"
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