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  "thread": {
    "id": 486,
    "subject": "Phaedria [Digest urth.v009.n007]",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-04-10T08:14:51+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-10T08:14:51+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0728@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at alexus.zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-10T08:14:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Phaedria [Digest urth.v009.n007]",
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          "text": "In \"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance\", one of the\nversions of the narrator is Phaedrus.  If I recall correctly,\nPhaedrus is a child of Apollo by a mortal woman, who begged\nhis father to allow him to drive the chariot of the sun.  \nHe could not control the horses and eventually was thrown out\nover the sea, fell and drowned.\n\n\"Zen\" is the story of a man who dove into pre-Socratic philosophy,\nand went mad (the causitive implication is there in the book).\nHe got electroshock therapy as a result of which the previous \npersonality effectively died and a new personality (the narrator)\nwas born.  The new personality named the old one Phaedrus.\n\nIt's quite likely that Wolfe read \"Zen\", and pretty much certain\nthat he knows the Greek myth.  Would not \"Phaedria\" be the feminine\nform?\n\n\t-John"
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