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  "thread": {
    "id": 4758,
    "subject": "The Holy Trinity: Silk, Horn, ...",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2006-10-30T21:50:33+00:00",
    "last": "2006-10-30T21:50:33+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<19ee41770610301350n6d69addbv7267c9840f37d710@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jack Redelfs",
        "address": "jackredelfs at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2006-10-30T21:50:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Holy Trinity: Silk, Horn, ...",
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          "text": "I've been among the many who fretted about the confusing identity of the\nnarrator - is Horn/Silk, Silk/Horn, just Silk, etc. I've often found it\nquite frustrating that Wolfe would be so stingy with the clues about this.\nLeading to a dizzying plethora of theories, standard for Wolfe but\nespecially pronounced here.\n\nI was rambling over the archves, looking into this topic, struck by how\neasily the discussion ascends into into semantic absurdities and flights of\nfancy. Suddenly I was struck with an absurdity of my own: the argument\nreminded me very much of the questions that tore apart the early Christian\nChurch (is God in the Son or of the Son? etc), and my question is this: is\nHorn/Silk two thirds of a kind of trinity? If so who is the third? Pig, the\nOutsider, Oreb (the white dove of the spirit dipped in black ink)? Is there\nan analogy to be made between Horn/Silk with the Catholic trinity? I don't\nhave the slightest comprehension of the Catholic trinity, but if someone\nhere does, would a consideration of that help us understand the nature of\nHorn/Silk?"
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