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  "thread": {
    "id": 700,
    "subject": "Moses",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-10-18T14:02:24+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-18T15:48:23+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0134@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-18T14:02:24+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Moses",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "\tLong ago I posted a score or more of fairly explicit parallels between BLS\nand the gospels, Acts, and Revelation.  I've never been able to see much of\nMoses here. Of course, Wolfe always adds other things on top of the basic\nscaffolding, but in what ways does BLS track the events in\nExodus-Deuteronomy? Is there an old post that lists parallels that could be\nreposted here?\n\nNutria\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0135@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-18T15:48:23+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Moses",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0134@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Well, I'm not sure there are nearly as many narrative comparisons, but the\noverall idea of Silk leading the people out of bondage to Typhon & co. in the\nWhorl to arrival in a new land that (at least once Typhon's storms get going)\nis \"milk and honey\" compared to the Whorl is obvious--the last title beginnning\nwith Exodus seems unlikely to be wholly spurious.  Silk is rather reluctant to\ntake the role of leader on himself at first, much like Moses.  And somebody did\ncomment on Auk/Aaron parallels.  Chemise as Miriam?\n\n\n\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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