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  "thread": {
    "id": 6779,
    "subject": "the odal rune in Sorcerer's House",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2018-02-19T19:58:26+00:00",
    "last": "2018-02-19T19:58:26+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CAF1072zP5zHhHKW2=GqwhwUS69ciYSBMG-wzJj4Wm8zDyLM6xg@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2018-02-19T19:58:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  the odal rune in Sorcerer's House",
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          "text": "One of the neat things about Wolfe involves his precise use of symbolism.\nIn Sorcerer's House Bax notes that when he lines up three symbols which\nresemble fish on the triannulus, a lot of other things fall into place. The\nrune which most resembles a fish, the odal rune, is associated with lineage\nand inheritance, and is especially associated with homesteading and\nallodial rights (ownership through occupation and defense).\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odal_(rune)\n\n The three fish are symbols of the things he is inheriting in the novel,\nthough in some degree this extends to the women as well, though all of the\ntripartite structures are determined by two-one patterns (two bass, one\ncatfish with a ring; two black fish meals, one white fish; two pigeons, one\nquail left by Winkle; two houses (with house spirits) and the Skotos Strip;\n... even the women seem to fall into this pattern, as he seems to inherit\nDoris from Ted somehow. Two false, one true, in general.\n\n\n\n(the figure of the horned skull on the triannulus does not merely imply the\ndemonic, but the domovoy is also associated with small horns)\n\n\nShould be finishing up this one soon, but I thought that was pretty neat."
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