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  "thread": {
    "id": 1014,
    "subject": "Oddz, Endz",
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    "first": "2000-09-05T23:39:44+00:00",
    "last": "2000-09-05T23:39:44+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0237@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-09-05T23:39:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Oddz, Endz",
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          "text": "First things first, a reader alert: our own mantis reviews IN GREEN'S\nJUNGLES in the latest issue of THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION\n(Sept., #145). As befits the only man I know who's crazy enough to attempt\nto write a capsule history of THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN in about as many\nsentences as it has chapters, the review is very succinct.\n\nSecondly, I'd like to respond to the following quote from Endymion:\n\n<OBW p.269 The neighbor says that The Mother is one of the goddesses names.\nIs the neighbor referring to Scylla as another name?>\n\nHere's the actual text, however:\n\n*****\n\nLamely, I finished. \"Seawrack calls her the Mother. I mean the girl--the\nyoung lady that I call Seawrack. I mean, she used to.\n\nThe Neighbor to my left said, \"That is one of her names.\"\n\n*****\n\nI believe a valid alternate interpretation here is that the Neighbor is not\ntalking about the Mother, but \"the young lady that I call Seawrack.\" That\nis, he's validating Horn's approximate pronunciation of her real name --\nwhatever that is. (I still have no clue, but I'll figure it out.)\n\nEarlier, however, that rumpled fellow asked this:\n\n<When Marble sends Horn down to the boat for water in OBW, he's surprised to\nfind fish waiting upon a rock; then even more surprised when one escapes\nonly to return, leaping out of the water onto the stone.  Horn hints that he\nhas some idea of what's going on, but not once does he mention what I\nthought at first was the obvious explanation; namely, that Mucor has taken\nover the fish and compelled them to jump from water to stone.  But then I\nrealized Mucor is journeying to the Whorl in search of Silk at the time, so\nshe can't be responsible>\n\nI speculated shortly after OBW came out that Seawrack is providing the fish,\nand lately that both she and Mucor are special talents of the Silk ilk.\nCheck the archives for further details.\n\nAnd lastly I have a question for either mantis or Wombat: if\nmicrometeorites, which have very little mass or surface area, burn out\nrather brightly when they hit earth's atmosphere, why wouldn't the inhumi?\nWe do know they can squeeze through under doorcracks, I seem to remember,\nbut this seems somewhat at a remove from mantis' gaseous phase change. (And\nI'm still not buying the escape velocity end-arounds you guys are positing.)\n\nAlso for mantis: where does the Whorl orbit in your opinion? Around Blue?\nGreen? Or some Lagrange point between (or outside?) the binary planet\nsystem?\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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