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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/368",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 368,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v006.n011",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-06-25T01:00:52+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-25T01:00:52+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0391@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin McGuire",
        "address": "kmcguire at itw.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-25T01:00:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v006.n011",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Rostrum writes:"
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Others have pointed out that Severian seems to fill the \"Christ figure\" \ndefinition in several ways (working miracles, saving the world), but the\nthings that most often cause a character to be compared to Christ are\nsacrificial death or suffering for others and some form of death, burial,\nand resurrection.  Using those two criteria, I'd say Silk (ObWhorl!) fits\nthe bill for \"Christ figure\" more than Severian, and neither one fits as\nwell as, say, Tom Joad in _The Grapes of Wrath_ (trying to dredge up a\n\"Christ figure\" from high school English classes and probably getting the\nname wrong) or Tolkein's Aragorn."
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          "text": "With regards to Severian's death, resurrection, et. al - I'd like to \nrecall the whole Apu Punchau (spelling?) sequence at the end of the \nNew Sun books.\n\nOn the actual early church parallels in the Long Sun books, isn't it \ninteresting that the Long Sun, as told by Horn (who is a \ncontemporary, but not central figure in the events in question), reconstructed after \nthe fact, parallels the same sort of storytelling one sees in the \nGospels?  The Book of Horn?  This could be compared to the first \nperson narrative of  the New Sun books, where (if you'll forgive my \nstretching the analogy a wee bit) is written from the Messiah's point \nof view.\n\nKevin McGuire\n(.sig omitted because I clearly don't have a clue how to format the \ndamn things - not that Philadelphia isn't a pretty damn scary \nplace, Patrick...)"
        }
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