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  "thread": {
    "id": 1090,
    "subject": "RTTW impressions SPOILERS",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-01T17:58:12+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-01T17:58:12+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0111@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Joel Priddy",
        "address": "mossmail at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-01T17:58:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) RTTW impressions SPOILERS",
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          "text": "So I've finished RTTW, and enjoyed it as much as I\nthought I would (lots), but I was surprised by...\nwell, let me add some Spoiler space here...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOkay.\nI was surprised by how many of the big revelations had\nbeen pretty well chewed over in this forum. In fact, I\nwas a little let down, because I was assuming the\nanswers would be so much weirder than anything\nmentioned here. Like the inhumi secret, f'rinstance.\n\nI spent a lot of the book really annoyed at \"Horn\" for\nbeing so dense about why people thought he was Silk. I\nhad trouble getting emotionally involved with \"Horn's\"\nquest for Silk. Even if he couldn't figure out where\nhe was, bodywise, why didn't he take better advantage\nof Pig as a resource? When he was talking to the\ndivine Silk, why waste time having one of those\nWolfean-detective conversations where he explains how\nhe knew it was SIlk in there, and not just go straight\nto the relevant issue? You'd think after everything\nhe'd been through, he'd have some eager questions to\nask.\n\nIt wasn't 'til pretty far in that it occured to me\nthat the man doth protest too much. I'd been wondering\nhow much Silk there was in Horn. Now I'm trying to\nfigure out how much Horn was in Silk. Interesting that\neven after Hoof and Hide read the same books we read,\nand get to know the guy well enough to have maybe\npaternal love for him, they still don't seem to think\nhe's their real Father. Anything more than a set of\nHorn's memories in there?\n\nOh, and as a tangent, regarding Silk's eating habits,\nI assumed it was part of the Silk-super body just not\nneeding as much feul as others. Silk spends a lot of\ntime feeling hungry and desiring food in Long Sun, but\n it never seems to take much to fill him, and he gets\na\nlot done for a guy with his diet.\n\nI'm curious to piece together what the circumstances\n were that brought \"Horn\" and Jahlee to the Matachin\nTower. Which brings me to two questions (one is\npersnickety, the other genuine):\n\nPersnickety: Are we really meant to believe that\n Severian, who writes about Master Ash, and the Green\nMan, and being a white fountain hundreds of years\nbefore he's born is going to consider \"Horn\" too much\nof a stretch for his readers to believe because he's\ngot the love-vibe and walks through walls?\n\nGenuine: Some time ago when we were putting questions\n to Mr. Wolfe, somebody asked if either Severian or\nhis\nsister would show up in the Short Sun series. And\n received, iirc, a not-so-specific answer. Turned out\nto be right on the money, possible twice. So my\nquestion is to the original asker, what made you ask\n if Severian's sister would appear? Intuition, or did\n you see clues?\n\n I'm looking forward to the conversations to come,\n\ncephalothorax "
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