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  "thread": {
    "id": 1205,
    "subject": "Hard to say goodbye (RTTW spoiler)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-20T09:34:58+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-20T09:34:58+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0309@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-20T09:34:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Hard to say goodbye (RTTW spoiler)",
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          "text": "on 2/19/01 10:38 AM, James Jordan at jbjordan at gnt.net wrote:\nBut is Silk \nthe kind of man who cannot face saying farewell to people he has\nunwittingly wronged? Okay, we can distinguish between Book Silk and Real\nSilk, and say that Book Silk would never act this way, while Real Silk\nmight. But I'm not convinced this is enough."
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          "text": "As i said in my earlier post, this is a good question, and I don't have a\nreally good answer.  One possibility that occurred to me is that Hoof and\nHide are not only reminders of the worst time in Silk's life, when he was\nliterally insane with grief; they were witnesses to Silk's delusion, as well\nas being subjects of it, in a sense.  It wouldn't be surprising for Silk now\nto find their presence both painful and embarrassing (perhaps he realizes he\nwon't be able to conceal his reaction, and wants to spare them the pain this\nwould cause them).  But, as you say, I'm not convinced this is enough.\n\nBut there are other unanswered questions surrounding Silk's departure.  Why\ndoes he find it necessary to leave so quickly, after all the effort made by\nboth Horn and \"Horn\" to bring him?  And why does he refuse to see Horn's\nsons, but bring along Horn's wife, even though the reason he gives applies\nequally to her?  I can guess at plausible answers, but they'd just be\nguesses.  It's clear that, for whatever reason, Wolfe wanted to get this\nepisode over with as quickly as possible, even if that meant leaving Silk's\nand Nettle's motives unexplained (had he wanted to, he could have found some\nway to convey this information to the \"editors,\" even without having Silk\ntalk to his sons).\n\n--Adam\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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