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  "thread": {
    "id": 1121,
    "subject": "{spoiler}  thoughts",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-02-09T14:04:42+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-09T14:04:42+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0167@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Henry Kaiser",
        "address": "hkaiser at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-09T14:04:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) {spoiler}  thoughts",
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          "text": "Here¹s my list of questions / discussion items:\n\n1) \"Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Good Fishing! Good Fishing! \"\nWhat narrative voice is that at the end in the final two paragraphs?\nIs that Daisy writing the last 2 paragraphs or someone else? It¹s someone\nwho can look through a telescope to see the whorl.\nIs that Gene's voice saying goodbye to His departing 5 characters in a happy\nCatholic ending?\nIs it Daisy be slightly humorous, and understanding the whole of the\npreceding narrative text; making an Oreb joke?\nScylla possessing Daisy, imitating Oreb?\n\n2) How did they get the Whorl ready to leave so fast?  Earlier, we were told\nby the surgeon on pg. 331 that it make take ³...years. A lifetime, likely as\nnot.² to ready for departure. It does not seem like it's more than a year or\ntwo later at the end of the narrative and it's already out of sight of the\nnaked eye.\n\n3) How many narrators, total, in the 3 SS books, do you count?\n\n4)  The Godling bothered me a bit.  It was too big to be a functioning meat\nanimal in a 1G gravity field. It was much bigger than Baldanders and it\ndidn¹t need to stay in the water. It just stuck out for me as something that\nhad no apparent technological explanation. Sure it came from the tanks, but\nit was just too big for me to swallow.....\n\n5) I noticed something odd at Amazon.com when I posted a little positive\nreview of the RTTW. At the beginning of a paragraph on Oreb, I said that I\nwas a sucker for talking animal movies. Amazon deleted most of that\nparagraph and replaced it with (...). Maybe an automatic editor looks for\nobscene language like ³sucker² and replaces it?\n\n6) I am looking forward to rereading all three books and looking closely at\neverything that Oreb has to say in light of the knowledge of the complete\nnarrative.......\n\nHenry Kaiser"
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