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  "thread": {
    "id": 881,
    "subject": "The Silver Chair",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-07-27T19:11:15+00:00",
    "last": "2000-07-27T19:11:15+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0014@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigelprice1 at compuserve.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-07-27T19:11:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) The Silver Chair",
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          "text": "Currently reading the Narnia books to my younger daughter as bedtime\nstories, I've been struck several times by vaguely Lupine echoes or, at\nleast, \"prefigurings\" in Lewis' narratives. A while back I read \"Prince\nCaspian\" while rereading OBW, and wondered whether the account of the\nchildren's rediscovery of the ivy covered ruins of Cair Paravel on the\nmysterious island contributed to GW's account of the ruined buildings of\nthe Neighbours which Horn explores on the island where he falls in the pit,\nor in the forest near Gaon.\n\nNo, far too vague and general a parallel, I concluded, for all that GW\nopenly acknowledges his admiration for Lewis' books.\n\nBut in \"The Silver Chair\" this evening, the following line particularly\ncaught my eye. Puddleglum is speaking...\n\n        \"Now a job like this -  a journey up north just as winter's\nbeginning, looking for  a Prince that probably isn't there, by way of a\nruined city that no one have ever seen - will be just the thing.\" (The\nSilver Chair, ch 5, p70 in the Puffin edition).\n\nOf course, the lost city here is called Harfang rather than Pajarocu, and\nthe journey to Pajarocu takes Horn west rather than north...\n\nYes, well, all right, it's not a close parallel, I agree, but it made me\nsmile.\n\nDoes anyone agree with me that the tame lion in GW's \"Operation Ares\" is a\ndeliberate parody of cum homage to Lewis' Aslan?\n\nNigel\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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