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  "thread": {
    "id": 6595,
    "subject": "Short Story 71: Silhouette Mephisto/Johann limp",
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    "first": "2014-08-03T12:03:11+00:00",
    "last": "2014-08-03T12:03:11+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CAF1072wUaR7cEQQxSXwYt3xWCtYPsOREJ66tPzNix_xv1_nwPw@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2014-08-03T12:03:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  Short Story 71: Silhouette Mephisto/Johann limp",
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          "text": "Even though Borski loves to assert Goethe's  Faust is everywhere in Wolfe's\nfiction, it really is everywhere in Silhouette.  But why is it Johann who\nhas a limp in the story when it is Mephistopholes in Faust? Does this\ncomplicate his imagery?  Is he taking his silhouette off the planet of\nneuerddraht to infect the galaxy? Algol has such a bad astronomical\nreputation, and the images of a civilization which drowned in sand\nand perished on the planet are a bit apocalyptic.  Are the seeming good\nguys in this bad, in light of the fact that the diabolists keep scrying\nJohann's name rather than, say, Satan's?"
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