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  "thread": {
    "id": 1005,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v011.n035",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-09-03T22:34:14+00:00",
    "last": "2000-09-03T22:34:14+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0222@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeffrey Meyers",
        "address": "jeffmeyers at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-09-03T22:34:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v011.n035",
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          "text": "Endymion9 wrote:\nOBW p.126\n\n\"Would it be effective for us to dig up one of the recent inhumations and\nrelease him to warn the others?  The thought recurs.\nIf the inhumas' eggs hatched in our climate, would not our human kind\nbecome extinct?  What tricks Nature plays!  If they are natural creatures at\nall.\nBut they surely are.  Natural creatures native to Green.  Why would the\nNeighbors create something so malign?\""
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          "text": "Endymion9's quotation of this passage in support of the fact that the inhumi\ndo not breed on Blue reminded me of a thought I had after reading this\npassage again the other night.  I don't remember anyone on the list\ndiscussing this.  Are the inhumi the Neighbors' creation?  It's possible.\nThey (the Neighbors and the inhumi) don't seem to have been living side by\nside for ages.  Rather, it seems as if the Neighbors' thriving civilization\nwas brought down by the inhumi.  Where did they come from?  Did they arrive\nfrom some other planet?  Or are they the result of the experimentation of\nthe Neighbors, a failed attempt at some sort of biological experiment?  Are\nthe inhumi the curse on the technilogical hubris of the Neighbors?  Someone\nmay shoot this down immediately, but I don't remember anything in OBW or IGJ\nthat would rule it out.  The fact that Horn brings it up and then rules it\nout simply on moral grounds seems to indicate that it is possible.  The\nNeighbors may not have created the inhumi \"so malign\", but they may have\n*become* so.\n\nPatera Bunny\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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