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  "thread": {
    "id": 6664,
    "subject": "forlesen as a re-enactment",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2014-09-11T03:04:28+00:00",
    "last": "2014-09-11T03:04:28+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CAF1072wxwpaVdAyRUiikrNwe7S-jWiSEoKZ-5bNTyY428BboGw@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2014-09-11T03:04:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  forlesen as a re-enactment",
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          "text": "I do feel that Forlesen is a simulation in an attempt of either aliens or\nangels to understand human life and why it adopted this puzzling business\nmodel.  It takes a preset scenario and casts Forlesen in it (thus his\nreflection is not what it should be - a different face for the original\nForlesen, perhaps the man known as Forlosen.) [Emmanuel means God is with\nus, as we all know]\n\nThe script exists in the form of the brown book, and the sets are all\nfreshly constructed mechanically.  The stop lights blink far too quickly to\nactually work, the pages of all the books are misaligned (Abraham shows\nForlesen a blank page ... later he sees numbers in a book).  The red and\nblack translations in the red book are not aligned correctly (or forlesen\ndoes not perceive which copy comes first).  The powers that be do not\nunderstand how to read their source material in creating the scenario.\n\nThe buildings are destroyed at the end of the day by black and orange\nmachines (the signs reading Hidden Drives were also black and orange).\n\nIt feels, given the lack of forlesen's self-recognition, that he is playing\nthe part of someone else (especially since he is in the brown book quite\nexplicitly) - a movie like the creativity problems which are actors playing\nteachers who were already filmed in their debates.  the question is whether\nForlesen is central to anything or just another tool.  Is the drama for him\nalone?\n\nthis one still bugs me - I don't think anyone has come up with a truly\nsatisfactory explanation that makes sense of all the disjunctions."
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