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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1184",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1184,
    "subject": "Whorl's destination?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-01-18T01:47:41+00:00",
    "last": "2000-01-18T01:47:41+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0275@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jacob Corbin",
        "address": "webmaster at afriendlysbooks.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-18T01:47:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Whorl's destination?",
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          "text": "<<< I had definitely hoped for some new light to be cast on the story\nor characters of the New Sun - else why bother with them? >>>\n\nHalf-serious two-a.m. speculation: is it at all possible that the Whorl's next destination is\nUrth itself?  If that were the case, it would go a long way towards washing the Red Sun\npassages of their vaguely unhealthy, fanficcy air (\"Oooh!  It's Severian!  Oooh!  It's the\nSamru!  Oooh!  It's Abaia!\" & so on.)  Certainly the idea lends a new cachet to RTTW's title.\nAnd consider: the Whorl would return to a very Blue-like (and mostly empty) planet, ripe for\nrepopulation.  Perhaps this has something to do with Horn's bargain with the sea-monster\nScylla.  Perhaps Horn's spirit is on Urth, and perhaps that's why Nettle decided to leave.\n\nAnd perhaps I'm just a loon....\n\nJacob G Corbin\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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