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  "thread": {
    "id": 5179,
    "subject": "Cosmological synthesis",
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    "first": "2008-10-12T12:39:11+00:00",
    "last": "2008-10-12T12:39:11+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<48F1EFEF.3030709@verizon.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dave Stockhoff",
        "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net"
      },
      "date": "2008-10-12T12:39:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cosmological synthesis",
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          "text": "Dan'l\n\nI found your post in a search on Tracking Song, which I just reread for \nthe 10th (or so) time.\n\nI completely agree with your last remark, and I think Tracking Song is a \nperfect example of how Wolfe merges mythological material with his \nCatholicism. This, because the story incorporates Native American modes \nof thinking and speech and concepts of human connections with nature and \nthe world, but is no more /about /that than Wizard Knight is about \nMerlin and Arthur.\n\nDave"
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          "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\nHello Matthew!\n\nYes, there are quite a few running images and themes in GW's work,\naside from the obvious genes, wolves, roses, and rosemary, which\nare almost more signatures than thematics. (How cool to have a name\nyou can do that with! I can't figure out how to work a danl or a\ndanehyoakes into my attempts at fiction...)\n\nAnother that appears frequently is a communion feast, which can\nbe either sacramental or blasphemous, or, sometimes, both. (I think, for\nexample, that the feast of the Liege of Leaves is generally a blasphemy\nbut becomes a sacrament on the occasion of Severian's presence.)\n\nAnother that gets some discussion at times >kaff, kaff< is the recurrent\nimage of blue-green world pairs: Ste.Anne/St.Croix, Urth/Lune,\nBlue/Green. Probably others, but those are the most significant.\n\nOne I push at that nobody else seems to see or agree with: the\nembedding of non-Christian cosmologies into a larger Christian\ncosmology, which itself is frequently ambiguous.\n\nCheers,\n\n--Dan'l"
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