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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1061",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1061,
    "subject": "Cover of Whorl",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2000-12-14T14:13:06+00:00",
    "last": "2000-12-14T17:11:32+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0064@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-12-14T16:48:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Cover of Whorl",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason it\ncouldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine...\n\nPaul\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0065@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-12-14T14:13:06+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (whorl) Cover of Whorl",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0012-0064@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason\nit couldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "No, it couldn't be, because of something Kevin Maroney said two\nweeks or so back:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The character depicted on the cover of _Return_ is new to that volume,\nand has not been seen (or mentioned, I believe) previously. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "...but possibly a being of the same sort...\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0066@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at ungames.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-12-14T17:11:32+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Cover of Whorl",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0012-0065@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 04:48 PM 12/14/00 -0500, Paul D wrote:\nI don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason it\ncouldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "It isn't. As I said, the character on the cover of _Whorl_ did not appear\nin _Blue_ or _Green_, or in any other Wolfe work that I'm aware of. (I\nbelieve. There might have been a mention that I've forgotten. But I\nwouldn't have forgotten the Mother.)\n\nI realize that speculation is fun, but this is a dead end. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "   Kevin Maroney | Unplugged Games \n   kmaroney at ungames.com | (212) 777-1190\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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