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  "thread": {
    "id": 4665,
    "subject": "urth Digest, Vol 23, Issue 10",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2006-07-20T08:19:21+00:00",
    "last": "2006-07-20T08:19:21+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<20060720081921.48305.qmail@web27807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jonathan Laidlow",
        "address": "ultan01 at yahoo.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2006-07-20T08:19:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) urth Digest, Vol 23, Issue 10",
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          "text": "BSharp wrote:\nI don't want to try to answer questions on the cabala. I never knew a great \ndeal about it and I >have forgotten most of what I knew. I have the great \ndisadvantage of not believing in it and so I >can't get so caught up in it \nas cabalist really do. To me it was someplace that I could steal ideas >and \nnames from."
        },
        {
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          "text": "I noticed this quote a while back and have, thererfore, avoided looking too \ndeeply into Kabbalah concepts to explain BotNS and am a bit skeptical \nregarding those who do.  There is another, non-cosmological, Kabbalistic \ntheme Wolfe borrows which I haven't seen mentioned by any critical review, \nthat being the Lilith myth.  I think I hinted at that a month or two ago but \nI'm not sure. I'll try to discuss it if I can gel my ideas and if there is \nany interest."
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          "text": "If there's one thing I've learnt from reading Gene Wolfe it is to never trust the author or anything he says....\n\nBut I think GW is being disingenuous here because he borrowed the Kabbalah much as other writers might borrow from Tolkien - not as something he believes in, but something that worked well in the story.\n\nJ\n\n-"
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