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  "thread": {
    "id": 451,
    "subject": "St. Francis/Silk",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-10-07T14:57:51+00:00",
    "last": "1997-10-07T14:57:51+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0007-0602@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-10-07T14:57:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) St. Francis/Silk",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Tony Zbaraschuk wrote:\nSt. Francis of Assisi, early in his career, had a vision telling him to\n\"rebuild my church\", and spent a while, first trying to beg stones from\npasser-by, and then actually working himself on rebuilding an old and\ndecayed church building, before he figured out that what God wanted was\na _spiritual_ reform, which become the Franciscan Order.  (There's a\nfair amount about this in G. K. Chesterton's biography of Francis.)\n\nThe thought crossed my mind shortly after Silk started talking about\nhow the Outsider wanted him to \"save the manteion\": \"Boy, Silk, are\nYOU in for a surprise; the Outsider wants something much, much larger.\""
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          "text": "Good catch, Tony.  As a GKC fan, I doubt Wolfe hasn't read Chesterton's \nSt. Francis biography.  The parallel is strong enough that it might be\ndeliberate.\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
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