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  "thread": {
    "id": 866,
    "subject": "humunculi three",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-06-27T23:28:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-27T23:28:00+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0030@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-27T23:28:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) humunculi three",
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          "text": "(\"For I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl hanging in a jar at Cumae, and\nwhen the acolytes said, `Sibyl, what do you wish?' she replied, `I\nwish to die'\" [Petronius, SATYRICON, ch. 48; all gleaned from notes\nto Eliot's THE WASTE LAND in THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY,\nsecond edition, p. 491])\n\n     This is the punchline to another one of the cruel jokes Apollo\nwould play upon the girls he could actually catch.  In this case she\nwanted eternal life, so he gave it to her, but he did not give her\neternal youth. (Can't forget Cassandra, either.)\n\n     Turner also tells me that sibyl's story is in Ovid's\nMETAMORPHOSES (book XIV), and the mandragora bears some resemblance\nto the homunculus of Goethe's FAUST, PART 2 (Act II).\n\n     --LEXICON URTHUS: Additions, Errata, &cetera (Volume 2), p. 12."
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