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  "thread": {
    "id": 5957,
    "subject": "Neighbors in the Whorl",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2011-02-09T18:36:33+00:00",
    "last": "2011-02-09T18:36:33+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<SNT123-W38A9597D550960790325C2CFED0@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lee Berman",
        "address": "severiansola at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2011-02-09T18:36:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Neighbors in the Whorl",
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          "text": "Andrew Mason-> It seems likely to me that the Neigbours in the Whorl are disguised as\nhumans (or indeed fused with humans, in a way akin to possession). If\nthey can transport someone else's spirit into a new body, it's not\nimprobable that they can also transport their own spirits into new\nbodies."
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          "text": "James Wynn- Well, the fact that they knew Silk's body was soon to be available \nsuggests they are there observing things. You make a good point though \nthat the Neighbors can very well be active on the Whorl without ships or \ncracking the airlock."
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          "text": " \nYes. I think this is getting closer to the heart of the matter. I would ask Andrew\nabout which group, on the Whorl, do we know is able to do \"possession\", putting their \nspirits into human bodies. Also, there seems to be some possession going on in the \nShort Sun stories. It is facilitated by a ring/jewel of the Neighbors. For me the \npieces of the puzzle fit together nicely.\n \nI think James also has a sense that Inhumi and Neighbor intrusions into the Whorl\nwere not a product of an outer space invasion through the void. The Whorl likely\ncame with all the pieces we find out about already in place.\n \nI don't think the ecological symbiotic fit of Neighbors, Inhumi and humans that we see \non Blue/Green evolved over the course of a few decades. It has been going on for a long, \nlong time.\n \n(this may be what Marc is getting at with his sense of flora and fauna. In BotNS there\nis a pelagic/blue water theme, a green theme and feeding off the death of humanity theme.) \t\t \t   \t\t  "
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