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  "thread": {
    "id": 1157,
    "subject": "Silk v. Hyacinth (celebrity deathmatch?) and Passilk",
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    "first": "2001-02-14T11:01:00+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-14T11:01:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0219@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Joshua A. Solomon",
        "address": "j.a.solomon at city.ac.uk"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-14T11:01:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Silk v. Hyacinth (celebrity deathmatch?) and Passilk",
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          "text": "When Horn's soul was transferred to Silk's body,\n\"(his) hands and arms and face and neck were all bleeding, and an old,\nworn knife covered with blood was by (his) hand.\nThere was no one else in the poor little house in which (he) knelt,\nand almost nothing in it that was not torn or broken\" (p 127).\nWhat was it the Neighbor said about Silk's soul?\nIt was broken or something, right?\nMy theory is that Silk and Hyacinth had a big row.\nJealousy? Who knows. They spend a few hours throwing plates at each other\nand then Silk finally snaps. He kills his lover with the sacrificial knife.\nThat oughta be enough to break his soul...\n\nI haven't read Exile since it came out, but let me see if I remember\ncorrectly: Silk was genetically-engineered to contain a piece of Pas.\nEchidna et al. erased Pas from Mainframe. At the end of Exile, Silk got\nhimself scanned into Mainframe. Now that Pas is back, he isn't quite the\nsame. For one thing, he is now referred to as Passilk. Silk only contained a\npiece of Pas. In some sense, he also contained a piece of the Outsider.\nMaybe the godlings' about-face (first they say \"go,\" now they say \"stay\")\nindicates Pas's losing dominance of the two-headed beast known as Passilk to\nSilk.\n\nFinally, and someone mentioned this already, the soul of Mainframe's silk\nnever broke. Thus when he possesses his old body he is still a pretty good\nguy, even if he slays an inhumu or three.\n\njs"
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          "text": "Joshua A. Solomon\nDepartment of Optometry and Visual Science\nCity University\nLondon EC1V 0HB\nVoice: (44) 20 7477 0192\nSecretary/Fax: (44) 20 7477 0182\nJ.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk\nhttp://vision.arc.nasa.gov/personnel/jsolomon\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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