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  "thread": {
    "id": 5365,
    "subject": "Tell My Horse",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2009-03-17T18:30:56+00:00",
    "last": "2009-03-17T18:30:56+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<001a01c9a72e$836ca740$8a45f5c0$@com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Brian Lovely",
        "address": "brian at studiobl.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-03-17T18:30:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tell My Horse",
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          "text": "In Zora Neal Hurston's \"Tell My Horse\" she describes how a Voodoo deity\npossesses a worshiper.  The deity passes a message/instruction to the\nworshippers, adding an injunction to \"tell my horse\" --i.e. the possessed\nworshipper - when the possession is over.  That's an example of an \"internal\nrider\".  I figured Babbie was a horned animal, with two horns, and Horn\nmaking three.\n\n \n\nBrian Lovely\n\n \n\n \n\n*******************\n\n \n\nwhile we've been talking about Babbie,\n\n \n\nwhat do people make of that Horn in Babbie concept that was thrown around\nyears ago.  Stu pointed it out to me.\n\n \n\nwhat the hell is up with that?\n\nI don't think I buy that at all, but I understand the knee bit, and the\noutsider calling for Babbie confounds the reading.  That an the \"Beast with\nthree horns bit\"  What else could be a beast with Three horns. Are horns\njust a metaphor for souls, which, seem to number 3 in Horn, but, the\nprophesy is that Horn will ride that beast, not be part of that beast, so\nI'm not sure if you could be a horn, and be a rider.  hurm...\n\n \n\nWhen I read it, I felt Babbie mirrored (in a way) Pig.  Horn had Babbie with\nhim on one leg, and Pig with him on the other.  Both are pigs of sorts.\n\n \n\n \n\n~witz\n\n \n\n \n\n "
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