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  "thread": {
    "id": 4106,
    "subject": "green man",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-07-20T05:00:20+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-20T05:00:20+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3705@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-20T05:00:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) green man",
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          "text": "Well, I have always favored the idea that Silkhorn is the proto-green man, \neaten (but spit out) by a tree and reconstituted with chloroplasts in his \nblood so that he never has to eat, but gets really sick in winter when the \nlighting isn't so good. (Through reverse endosymbiosis: tree eats man)  BUT \n... Silk isn't green.  Maybe it's like freckles - you need a few generations \nof good healthy chloroplasts to have them so prominent that people become \ngreen.  So I don't know.\n\nSomeone did make a fascinating claim: that Silk's power to change stories like \nhe did with Fava could indeed have affected Severian's narrative: Silk didn't \nwant to be in it so he changed it up, or Silk wound up in it somehow even \nthough that's not how it really went.  What a neat power to have to solve all \ncontradictions and paradoxes!  \"Silk wanted it written that way \nsubconsciously\"  Talk about metanarrative abilities.  And he was \"told\" the \nstory of Severian by his passion play in the chapter of In Green's Jungles \nwhere Silk tells his story of \"the man on green\" : a man with a wicked sword \nand a light, embued with power from an extraordinary, previous world-cycle \nsource, clears out the trash of humanity and brings a big flood, and in that \nflood loses his light just as Severian lost the claw in Lake Diuturna.  So the \npassion play would tell him all about Severian through the odd mutable myth \ntechnique, which he could then mutate beyond all recognition at a whim or \nwrite himself into.\n\nMarc Aramini"
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