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  "thread": {
    "id": 1167,
    "subject": "Missing pieces (was: Quadrifons) (Spoilers)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-14T23:09:05+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-14T23:09:05+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0239@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-14T23:09:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Missing pieces (was: Quadrifons) (Spoilers)",
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          "text": "At 11:37 PM +0000 2/14/01, Christopher Culver wrote:\nReading again Horn's Eucharist scene at the Neighbor's altar in IGJ, \nwhich I believe is one of the most moving things Wolfe has ever \nwritten, I was suprised to see him mention that he \"sacrificed for \nOlivine.\" I think it will be interesting to go back through the \nfirst two books and put together all the pieces now that we have \nRttW."
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          "text": "Well, when you put all the pieces together, I'd really appreciate you \ntelling us all about it. I personally don't believe Wolfe has given \nus all the pieces or anything like it.\n\nIn fact, he has left *so many* loose ends, especially with regard to \nScylla (Is she going to possess Oreb again? Why did Marble say \"Oh, \nScylla!\" when she could see again and why is Silk so concerned about \nit?) that I can only assume he is seriously considering writing \n*another* series of books about the Whorl and its five year journey \nto discover new life and new civilizations...\n\nNow, I am sure that this, if true, would be good news to some, but I \nam really not sure if I am going to bother with Wolfe's next novel if \nit is part one of _The New Book of the Long Sun_ (Egad! That sounds \nlike a title Wolfe might actually use. It will be followed by _The \nLong Book of the Short Sun_, _The Short Book of the New Sun_, ...)\n\nHere's another missing piece: What the heck are Mora and Fava doing \npossessing anyone? I don't even remember, did both of them die in \nIGJ? Is this possession supposed to have something to do with the \nfact that they are another human/inhumi pair?\n\nI feel pretty sorry for Mucor. Not only was she genetically \nengineered as an embryo, stolen and sold, brought up by someone who \ndidn't love her but just wanted to make use of her special powers, \ngiven brain surgery on to make her more tractable and then starved \nand imprisoned and used as a brood mare to incubate lynxes (and other \nanimals?) but her special powers aren't even special any more. Mora \nand Fava can possess people and Horn/Silk and any inhumi can astrally \nproject themselves and anyone else who happens to be nearby.\n\nHey, here's a theory: Mucor did it! Did what? Made Silk murder \nHyacinth, bust up his home and injure himself, not necessarily in \nthat order. After all, what *was* she doing for all that time when \nHorn was waiting for her to return when he was out on the island with \nMarble and Mucor? But these events wouldn't happen for months you \nprotest? Well, she figured out how to project herself astrally \nthrough time as well as space.\n\nWell, I thinks it's as likely as Robert Borski's theory. 8->\n\nWilliam Ansley\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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