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  "thread": {
    "id": 1110,
    "subject": "Horn and Silk (spoilers)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-08T12:51:21+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-08T12:51:21+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0143@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Spectacled Bear",
        "address": "spectacled.bear at pobox.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-08T12:51:21+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Horn and Silk (spoilers)",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "At 04:20 2001-02-02 -0800, Shannon wrote:\n..."
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "In RTTW, Wolfe pointedly\ndirects the reader to pay extra-close attention to the\nvoices of the characters as clues to the shifting\nidentities.  For example, IGJ's cranky didactic tone\nseemed to me the result of the rocky relationship\nbetween pedantic Silk and dour Horn.  And in RTTW, I\nheard Silk's voice fairly often, and not just borrowed\nmemories.  Horn and Silk seem better integrated, and\nable to use their different strengths in tandem (i.e.\nSilk's warmth and charm, Horn's maturity and\n(relative) stability).  Some of their/his spoken\npassages are pricelessly polyphonic as subtle verbal\ntics are exchanged, as well as the physical tells\nwhich are occasionally mentioned."
        },
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          "text": "I love those amazing schizophrenic conversations - my\nfavourite is Maytera Marble channelling Maytera Rose\nand changing PoV practically every other word. I didn't\nnotice them so much with Horn and Silk, perhaps because\nit's a while since I read any actual Silk dialogue. Do\nyou happen to recall any examples?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "In fact, I think\nSilk is far more present in RTTW, though Horn may well\nbe hamming it up for effect...I should go finish the\nbook, and post with quotes next time <g>.    -Shannon  "
        },
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I'm not saying anything :-)\n\nSpectacled Bear."
        }
      ]
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