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  "thread": {
    "id": 2951,
    "subject": "walk through brush magic",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-02-11T15:36:04+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-11T15:36:04+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-134@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-11T15:36:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) walk through brush magic",
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          "text": "Woah! I never considered the connotations of the \"magic\" abilities that Silk \nobviously has until it was phrased in a previous post as \"walk through brush \nmagic.\"  This seems to me a pretty obvious affinity with plants and scrubs - \nmaybe he is a tree man. (Pig can avoid trees because he has sonar, being a \ngodling machine). I think that particular power (avoid flora) really jives \nwith my tree theories - perhaps Silk has some tree in him.\n\nAnother strange power is the narrator's ability to change the story of Fava \nwhile she is telling it.  I actually think that this is an ability that Silk \nhas and can exert on everyone.  People will tell stories about him, and he can \ninfluence those stories unconcsciously (or consciously).  I think this is \nanother of his special qualities - I think he actually influenced the writing \nof The Book of the Long Sun and the intercalary chapters of Return to the \nWhorl - which makes a much better case for a possible divine nature in Silk: \nhe can inspire texts written about him just as God can inspire biblical texts \nwithout them being literally true (in a Catholic sense, anyway). However, I \nthink this is an engineered talent he always had.  Notice how quickly people \nare telling stories of his enlightenment in Nightside after he just tells one \nor two people.  His power involves people'sm willingness to tell stories about \nhim.\nI asked Wolfe the question \"Can Silk change the accounts written about him, as \nhe did the story of the inhuma, to hide or obscure things?\"\nWolfe responded: \"I don't think Silk would do something like that unless it \nwas for emphasis.\" He did not deny that this was a special quality Silk had. \nSince that question, Wolfe has not addressed any more of my inquiries.\nMarc Aramini"
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