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  "thread": {
    "id": 156,
    "subject": "Wounds and food",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-03-12T18:41:57+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-12T18:41:57+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0223@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Charles Dye",
        "address": "raster at highfiber.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-12T18:41:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Wounds and food",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is from Jim Jordan:"
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Speaking of that book, the ex-investigator Aladdin Blue has a\nwound that a lot of Wolfe's heros have - a leg wound. Silk of course\nhas a break in his leg, Severian says some call him \"Severian the\nlame\" - that seems to be all I can think of. Latro has a wound, but in\nthe head. "
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "See also \"The Hero as Werewolf.\"\nI asked Gene about the foot wound and possible connection to Genesis 3.\nHe said he had not thought of it in connection with \"Werewolf,\" but I did not\nask about Severian (and this was before Silk). I think Silk's foot wound is\nclearly from Genesis 3; Severian's likely is. I don't think Latro's head\nwound identifies him with Satan/serpent, though, because it does not fit at\nall. Also, Gene had hoped to take Latro to Palestine and to the New World\nbefore it is all over. I'd love to see what Wolfe would do with Latro\nvisiting Jerusalem!"
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          "text": "If you haven't already, grab copies of three of Robert Graves's magni opi:\n\"I, Claudius,\" \"Claudius the God,\" and \"King Jesus.\"  These will explain a\ngreat deal about Severian and company, including the prevalence of leg and\nfacial wounds.  They're also damn good books in their own right.  I nurse\na deep, dark, ugly suspicion that the grave robbers in Chapter I of \"Shadow\"\nare a veiled homage / name pun.\n\n\nAnd this from Ranjit Bhatnagar:"
        },
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          "text": "I noticed a lot of very vivid descriptions of food in the\nLong Sun books.  Somehow Severian's story never made me\nhungry."
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          "text": "Hum ....  From memory, as I don't have the books here:  bread and mutton,\nleeks and lentils (\"That's the difference; torturers get mutton.\")\nSeverian's stolen meal near Orithyia:  bread and cheese, jerky and an onion\n(brings tears to my eyes); larks stuffed with almonds and candied figs\n(described in Dr. Talos's play;) and doesn't Vodalus pass the larks?\nSeverian often drinks mate, probably an homage to Borges.  Most of the food\nin the \"Book\" is plain peasant fare, but Wolfe describes it with the same\ndepth of emotion you'd get from the Frugal Gourmet.  I've never met Mr. Wolfe\nmyself, but I strongly suspect that the man is Not Anorectic!\n\nraster at highfiber.com\n\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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