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  "thread": {
    "id": 1159,
    "subject": "Jahlee's End",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-14T08:49:56+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-14T08:49:56+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0222@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lebling",
        "address": "dlebling at ucentric.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-14T08:49:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Jahlee's End",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com>\nPutting aside the godling issue as the lesser, I'm still working on how\nalga is bugged by Jahlee's death."
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          "text": "I find Jahlee's death very straightforward, if disappointing. Jahlee attacks\nNettle because she has always loved Horn, and she will never have him\nbecause Horn loves Nettle. Horn kills Jahlee because she violated the\nagreement never to touch his family, not to mention his obvious rage that\nhis wife is being attacked (no Michael Dukakis, he). (Yes, this agreement\nwas made with Krait, but that's a legal quibble; as Rajan his agreement with\nher was all-encompassing, too). Jahlee is clearly a loose cannon, almost as\nmuch so as Jugurna. Doesn't the attack happen the morning after Horn/Silk\nand Nettle spend the night together? Jahlee has no way of knowing there was\nno \"warm commerce\" involved. She is a woman \"trapped in the body of a\nblood-drinking reptile,\" and she will never be human, never experience the\nkind of love Horn has for Nettle. The tragedy of the inhumi is that they are\nhumans who will never be human.\n\nI wonder if Wolfe's \"failure\" to provide a satisfying conclusion to the\nproblem of the inhumi is that there is none. The inhumi, like evil in the\nabstract, are created by people. If people solve the problem of evil, they\nwill solve the problem of the inhumi.\n\nNot your usual SF resolution, where Silk would have found the Seekret\nFormula for Inhumi-bane hidden away in Mainframe (virtual reality\nsword-fight with Pas optional). I see Keanu Reeves as Silk.\n\n    Dave Lebling\n    aka vizcacha\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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