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  "thread": {
    "id": 1125,
    "subject": "This little piggie stayed home",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-10T12:46:41+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-10T12:46:41+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0171@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-10T12:46:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) This little piggie stayed home",
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          "text": "Shortly after Pig, Hound, and Horn reach New Viron, Pig confesses to a\nterrible crime: in one of his looting sprees, he's killed an augur. This, he\nprofesses, took place before he was blinded; thus when Silent Silk via a\nSacred Window attempts to possess him, he is successful--and Pig is changed\nbenignly forever, although he soon loses his \"een.\" It's his hope of\nrecapturing the peaceful feeling and joy involved that sends Pig in search\nof various Sacred Windows--or so Horn incorrectly reasons.\n\nWhat Pig does not tell us, and Horn does not realize, and we readers must\nfigure out, is this: the augur Pig kills is none other than Silk in his\nmanse. Silk, at the moment of expiration, does not die, but rather is\ntransfused with the spirit of dying Horn, translocated by means of\nNeighborly technomagic. Apparently, Hyacinth has recently died (given their\nlack of children, and Hyacinth's history of prostitution, it's easy enough\nto speculate that some sort of sexually-transmitted disease may have been\ninvolved. At any rate we've been told earlier that she's sick.) Enter\nTartaros--he\n\"sees\" Hyacinth lying in her coffin--so he admits to Hound--but claims Silk\nhimself is absent, although the very next people he meets are Horn and\n\"H'Oreb.\" In my opinion, these are lies, and in this respect Pig\nresembles Seawrack, who, at least if we are to believe Krait, is equally\nmendacious (she too, in a sense, harbors somebody, but I'm getting ahead of\nmyself here.) What really happens in the manse is that Pig has killed Silk.\n(Silk having a Sacred Window might also help explain how Horn is downloaded\nfrom Green.)\n\nWhen Horn finds himself relocated on the Whorl in Silk's body, he notices\nnumerous cuts. These same cuts prompt the nameless farmer at End Road to ask\nHorn if he's received his injuries trying to fight off a godling. \"A godling\nwould've killed him,\" says the farmer's wife. To which her husband responds,\n\"Big one would've.\" This implies differently sized godlings, Pig/Tartaros\nbeing, as I've speculated, on the smaller end of these.\n\nWhen Pig confesses he's killed the augur, he also tells Horn that he's cut\ndown the augur with his blade--again consistent with Horn's injuries.\n\nBut why would Tartaros--or perhaps more properly Passilk/Mainframe--want\nSilk killed? And can the Neighbors be totally innocent in all this--out of\nall the thousands of people on the Whorl, just very conveniently happening\nto merge Horn with the one person he has been attempting to find since\nleaving Lizard and Blue at the moment of both their deaths?\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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