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  "thread": {
    "id": 3439,
    "subject": "male hyacinth: necessity",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-09-03T20:31:45+00:00",
    "last": "2002-09-03T20:31:45+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0209-1660@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at hotpop.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-09-03T20:31:45+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) male hyacinth: necessity",
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          "text": "Matthew Malthouse said\nIf one posits that Hyacinth is ex-male, male , chem male or female one has\nto answer what purpose it serves.  More what purpose would it serve to\nhave Silk fall in love with such a being.  That would seem contrary to\nWolfe's normal path in such matters and would require explanation.\n\nIt serves four purposes that I know of at this time:\n\n1. It falls in line with the \"artificiality\" and \"imitation\" in the sense of\n\"blasphemy\" the fills Wolfe's Whorl:\n--The Whorl is an artificial inside-out parody of Urth constructed in\nimitation the Urth\n-- Chems are artificial imitations of humanity\n-- Silk and IMO Chenille are artificial humans created in a test-tube\n-- The \"gods\" are artificial Mainframe interfaces in imitation of the Urth\nroyal family\n-- Silk's religion is an artificial inside-out parody of \"the\n\tofficial\" religion Typhon's state and the ancient\n\tGreek religious cults.\n-- The undercover inhumi walk about disguised as humans upon whom they prey\n\n2. It exemplifies good sense of imitation in the theme in which something\n\"artificially imitates\" an original and \"in some sense\" becomes that\noriginal.\n\n3. It exemplifies the themes of the love affair between Christ and the\nChurch (see my essay \"Apocalypse of the New Sun\") and parallel theme of the\nlove affair of Apollo and Hyacinthus. Both these background stories involve\na love affair between a divine being and a created being created in the\ndivine being's image.\n\n4. Finally, it emphasizes a concomitant theme in which a created being\nimitates a its creator in whose image it is created (this is Thelx's Mirrors\nwhich reflect the reflecting pool).\n\n:-D\n-- Crush"
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