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  "thread": {
    "id": 54,
    "subject": "Wolfe RPG",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-05-30T14:30:28+00:00",
    "last": "1997-05-30T14:30:28+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0001-0085@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Joel Priddy",
        "address": "jpriddy at saturn.vcu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-05-30T14:30:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe RPG",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "mantis say: "
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Finally, this annecdote: when Neil Gaiman heard about the\nproject he"
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          "text": "said (words to this effect), \"How neat--a game where everybody\ntries to\nfigure out who his own mother is.\" <g>\n\nLiterally, LOL. What if all the player characters turn out to be\ntime duplicates of each other? That's gotta screw up character\npoints...\nI'm gonna hold off on signing up as an IO member in order to\ndownload the playtest version of GURPS New Sun, however. (1) I'm\nnot sure I'm mentally and emotionally prepared to start spending\nmoney on RPGs again. (2) I just got my copy of the Lexicon, which\nshould hold me for awhile.\nAnd speaking of the Lexicon... What a groovy book! A nicely\ndesigned cover, to boot (it looks a lot nicer than the New Sun\npaperbacks, the covers of which I, frankly, find a little\nembarrassing). I can't wait to read the Book again, looking up\nevery third word. And once I do, boy, will I start to nitpick each\nlittle detail until this mailing list is bursting with my\ningorant obsessings.\n  Here's one to start myself off on... Flipping through the\nLexicon randomly, I came across a couple Ushas-related passages\nwhere mantis talks about Sleeper-Severian waking up the other\ngods, and these four gods forming a strong base in the brave new\nworld. What is this based on? The only place I can possibly\nimagine any evidence of this coming from is the Green Man,\nalthough I don't specifically remember that happening (not that that means\na thing. Severian I ain't). This is an idea that appeals, and\nmakes plenty of mythopoetic sense, but didn't present itself to\nme as the definite ending of _Urth_.\n  And speaking of the Green Man, in the Lexicon mantis says that\nhis symbiotic bacteria attests to his peace with Fauna. This\nreminds me of a Blake quote along the lines of getting past the\nvegetable world before you can see the domes and spires of\nGolgonotha(?). \"Vegetable\" referring to gross matter in this\ninstance, and the city of Golgonotha being a higher spiritual\nstate.\n  I think about Blake a lot when reading Wolfe, but I don't think\nI've seen his name show up here yet. Wolfe's\nreligious beliefs seem very Blakean to me, if I'm reading them correctly.\nSeeing the cycle of Christ occuring in each\nindividual, the Final Judgement happening on a personal level,\nthe need to create  seemingly pagan pantheons in order to illustrate \nChristian thought...\n  I'm no Blake scholar and am in no position to make my case\nclearly, but has anyone else drawn a connection? If not, I'll do\nmy reading and try to restate this more cogently.\n How about you,alga? It was that gorgeous Blake print on th cover\nthat made me notice your History in the first place.\n\n-cephalothorax-"
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