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  "thread": {
    "id": 1023,
    "subject": "Endymion's question (or: He ain't heavy, I'm my brother.)",
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    "first": "2000-09-10T11:58:18+00:00",
    "last": "2000-09-10T11:58:18+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0255@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-09-10T11:58:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Endymion's question (or: He ain't heavy, I'm my brother.)",
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          "text": "Endymion having written:\n\n<p.63 \"What did you want with your brother?\" the man of the Vanished People\nasked him.  And he said that he had hoped to bury the corpse and pray for\nthe dead man's spirit.  \"So I feared...\"\n\n<Why did the Neighbor fear that Horn would try to do this??>\n\nHere's my interpretation, but it involves a little bit more than the few\nsentences you cite.\n\nBecause when earlier on page 63 the Neighbor says, \"There are two of you,\"\nHorn assumes he's talking about both himself and the cadaver in the river,\nwhereas I believe he's actually referring only to Horn, who has some sort of\ndual aspect (just like the Neighbors). A transformation has happened when\nHorn was trapped in the island pit, I contend, and the Neighbors appear\nresponsible. Here perhaps the Christian analogy works well: Jesus the man is\ncrucified on the cross, but it's Christ the God who emerges from the tomb.\nSimilarly for Horn, who emerges from the pit as Other: something-plus-Horn,\nwho's able to transport himself across dreamscapes and create swords out of\nthin air, etc., etc.\n\nThis Other then may be \"the brother\" referred to by the Neighbor, who fears\nHorn will attempt to sever himself from his own human roots; or it may\nsimply be the cadaver in the river, who, if Horn takes the time to bury and\npray over, will delay his sewer-cleaning mission. \"It's the past holding\non,\" as the old blind man tells him shortly--whereas Horn, in the hopeful\nmindset of the Neighbor, needs to move on and fulfill his larger-than-human\ndestiny.\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\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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