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  "thread": {
    "id": 3359,
    "subject": "Silk-23 and the Silkicide mystery",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-07-16T15:39:06+00:00",
    "last": "2002-07-16T15:39:06+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0207-1389@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-07-16T15:39:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Silk-23 and the Silkicide mystery",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Just in case it is slipping past unnoticed, and at the grave risk of\nbelaboring the obvious: the beauty of putting Silk-23 in to the\nHorn-in-Silk-body is that the past 20 years are as unknown to Horn as they\nare to Silk-23, including the mysterious suicidal events immediately prior\nto the first switcharoo.\n\nHorn isn't being evasive, he really doesn't know -- this we grant easily.\nBut the same would hold true for Silk-23 -- he wasn't there, either.  So no\nmatter which personality is in control of the Narrator, the result would be\nthe same.\n\nIt would also mean that the Narrator would be walking away from rulership\nroles on Blue, not because of the crippling first-hand experiences of\nSilk-43, but because Silk-23 has seen second-hand that such a path will\ndestroy him (i.e., as Silk-43 was destroyed, spiritually if not suicidally).\n\n=mantis="
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