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  "thread": {
    "id": 1077,
    "subject": "Silk & Horn",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-01-29T23:59:00+00:00",
    "last": "2001-01-29T23:59:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0089@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-01-29T23:59:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Silk & Horn",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "If Silk was used to fasting and eating very lightly all his life, then\nHorn/Silk would probably get sick if he tried to eat as much as Horn was\nused to eating.  Thus all the fuss about not eating -- Horn wants to eat,\nbut knows he'll regret it if he does.\n\nIf Horn is always trying to think/act like Silk, and all we know of Silk\nis what Horn (and Nettle) wrote about him, then it's real hard for us to\ntell the difference between Horn acting the way he thinks Silk would act\nand Horn being influenced by whatever's left of Silk in his body (apart\nfrom that weird bit where he mention's hearing Hyacinth singing in the\ndistance).  I submit that if we see Horn/Silk acting in some way that is\nout of character for both Horn and Silk-as-Horn-describes-him, then that\nis likely bits of the real Silk that Horn never knew.\n\nIn that vein, I've wondered if the reason Horn doesn't seem to want to\nadmit that he's in Silk's body is that he found himself in what appeared\nto be an attempted suicide, and he can't believe that Silk would do such a\nthing (as some of us can't believe it -- but then we've only seen Silk\nthrough Horn's eyes).  It's been long enough since he last saw Silk that\nlooking in the mirror might not be conclusive.  Maybe part of him strongly\nsuspects it, but another part wants to believe that it's really someone\nelse.\n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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      ]
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  ]
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