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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1130",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1130,
    "subject": "Silk Hoseary",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-11T23:14:18+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-11T23:14:18+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0178@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-11T23:14:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Silk Hoseary",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Recently, Dennis/Endy wrote..."
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          "text": "I see Silk and Hy after the end of Exile\nas the relationship of Hosea and\nGomer of the Old Testament Bible.\nHosea constantly had to go to the\nmarketplace and drag Gomer back\nhome to keep her from sleeping with\nother men."
        },
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          "text": "I agree with you, Dennis, about the echo of Hosea in Silk's situation. I\nmentioned this to Nick Gevers a year or so back as a response to his\ninterpretation of Silk's failure to leave the Whorl as an indication of\nmoral failure.\n\nDid I mention this in private correspondence, Nick, or on the Whorl list?\n\nI can't remember.\n\nAnyway, Nick had compared Silk's failure to see Blue with Moses' failure to\nreach the promised land, and I had suggested that, in contrast, Silk's\nrefusal to abandon the beautiful but unworthy Hyacinth evoked for me strong\nechoes of Hosea's love for his faithless wife Gomer, which is interpreted in\nscripture as an allegory of God's love for his unfaithful people Israel. I\nstill see Silk's love for Hyacinth as in some way echoing Christ's love for\nthe world (\"...while we were yet sinners...\"), rather than a sign of his\nfailure to overcome earthly temptation.\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
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