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  "thread": {
    "id": 3331,
    "subject": "horn to silk",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-07-02T17:30:00+00:00",
    "last": "2002-07-02T17:30:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0207-1292@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-07-02T17:30:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) horn to silk",
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          "text": "Hi Steve.  In response to your statement that you liked the narrator of IGJ \nand RTW, but not the one of OBW, I totally agree that they are actually \ndifferent people.  I have explained the change to my own satisfaction on the \nlist - the majority of Horn leaves the narrator at the end of OBW when he \nslumbers under the big tree and flees into Babbie (that weird scene where horn \nbelieves he IS Babbie - a beast with three \"horns\" - note how babbie treats \nHorn's son at the end of Return to the Whorl on Urth - he is mean until he \nrecognizes him, then he bear hugs him and points at his \"horns\" to indicate \nhis name)- since the trees are the \"gods\" or creators, to some degree of the \nvanished people, they have their powers of transmigration.  Many, many people \ndisagree with me, but I maintain that the entire change in narration supports \nmy ideas - this is where the narrator's voice changes - right after he says \ngoodbye to everyone and then Silk awakens - and the outlook of the narrator \nbecomes positive RIGHT away - he claims his text was too negative, and that he \nshould have said how much Hari mau smiled, etc.  I have a lot of other ideas \nabout the trees and their importance which have already been posted - but I \njust thought I'd restate that one for you.\nMarc Aramini"
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