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  "thread": {
    "id": 2923,
    "subject": "For Joe: every being of his kind",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-02-05T05:31:39+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-05T05:31:39+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-75@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-05T05:31:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) For Joe: every being of his kind",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Joe said:"
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "How has Horn been \"every being of his kind\"? (pg 272 pb OBW). This is said\n        by the neighbour Horn to Horn before he is resurrected in Silk. Horn \nhas"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "        been (so far) a son, student, lover, fighter, colonist, husband, \nfather,\n        mill builder, adulterer, sailor, quest taker....and more. Except for \nthe\n        last, many New Vironese men could probably claim to be all these \nthings\n        (replace miller with smith or cooper if you like).\n        What do the writers mean by \"his (?) search for the fabled town of \nPajarocu\"\n        in the Afterword to RTTW (pg 409 tor hc).\n        Typically, my analysis just brings up questions I can't answer but I \nhave to\n        say I like your theory more and more."
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          "text": "Well, I believe that Silk is the guy they are talking about at the end, that \nHorn has left him entirely by the end of writing On Blue's Waters, (note the \nchange from negative descriptions to positive descriptions: \"I should have \nmentioned his smile, etc etc\") when he reposes under the tree and says goodbye \nto his family, going into Babbie. Therefore, \"His (?) search for the fabled \ntown of Pajarocu\" was not done by the man they are talking about, Silk, but by \nHorn, a different man who was temporarily in Silk. Horn was the only one \nlooking for Pajararocu.\nAs far as Silk being \"every being of his kind\", he has looked through the blue \nglass and sees the world as a holistic picture, and if his DNA has mixed with \nthe trees when he fell in, then he has created a new race, and is every being \nof his kind by virtue of being both plant and human, but still being Horn.  \nHis DNA is then probably responsible for all the Vanished People that he \nencounters directly after that, before they begin feasting on others (they do \nget permission to come back ... \"bwa ha ha.  We will eat you foolish \nhumans\")I'm not clear if the plant genome has entered into Horn and turned him \ninto something like the Green man, to perpetuate a new species, but note that \nlater Silk doesn't eat very much, and he is very sick in the cold weather.  Of \ncourse, I think his staff is feasting on him, but perhaps he is going through \nthe winter blues that most plants undergo - I'm just not sure yet if Silk is \nthe original green man through mixing with Horn or not.\n\nMarc Aramini"
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