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  "thread": {
    "id": 252,
    "subject": "feets",
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    "first": "1997-04-03T18:52:27+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-03T18:52:27+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0290@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-03T18:52:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) feets",
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          "text": "Re Nutria's excellent post:\n\nYes! Time to analyze enlightenments and mythic linkages.\n\nI wouldn't pin the lame foot on Claudius alone. There is a long, long\nWestern tradition of the symbolic wounded foot/wounded thigh. Think about\nthe Fisher King. Or one-sandaled Jason. Or Sevarian! The wound seems nearly\nalways to refer to impotence, and the monarch who bears it is symbolic of\nthe wounded land; to heal it/him (as some of the Arthurian knights\nattempted to do in their travels) is to heal sterility/barrenness. His\nleg's new wholeness is quite explicitly a symbolic healing with Sevarian,\nwho is clearly, by the end, a mythic figure. And, as Silk becomes more and\nmore the designated Savior, his lameness stands in for the dysfunctional\nWhorl. Wolfe's having had polio as a child has got to have made him\nsuper-aware of the tradition. I wonder how it will figure in the new\nbooks---or do you think Wolfe will abandon Silk in favor of a new\ngeneration? Oh no! \n\nNutria, could you track down a root for Chrasmology? I'm sure you're right,\nthough.\n\n-alga-\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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