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  "thread": {
    "id": 1220,
    "subject": "Pig Ears, Redux",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-02-22T09:01:49+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-22T09:01:49+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0335@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lebling",
        "address": "dlebling at ucentric.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-22T09:01:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Pig Ears, Redux",
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          "text": "From: \"Robert Borski\" <rborski at charter.net>\n<<If I read you correctly, Patrick, you seem to be denying the possibility\nof\neven small godlings in general, whereas Wolfe at least mentions them\ntwice.>>\n\nFrom: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>\n<<And you have left out what, for me, is the clincher. The ears!\nGodlings have \"bestial, pointed ears\" (RttW, p. 53). When Horn\nrefuses to allow Pig to return to Blue with him, Pig first assumes\nthat it is because Horn had seen his ears (\"Seen me h'ears\" is what\nPig says on p. 372.) What in the whorl can this mean except that Pig\n*is* a small godling.>>\n\nI first brought this argument up in this post:\n\n<<From: \"Dave Lebling\" <dlebling at shore.net>\nSubject: (whorl) Pig Ears (spoiler)\nDate: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:12:25 <========\n\nMore evidence of Pig-as-godling:\n\nThe godling Horn/Silk meets in the beginning is described as having\n\"bestial, pointed ears.\" (p. 53).\n\nPig shaves and gets his hair cut after (before?) his operation. When Pig\nasks if he can go to Blue with Silk, Silk refuses. Pig's response? (p. 372)\n\n \"Seen me h'ears.\"\n \"That has nothing to do with it...\"\n\nPerhaps what Pig means is that his ears, like the godling's, are\ndistinctively pointed.>>\n\nJust thought I'd mention it since I so rarely am the first to pick up on\nsomething!  Not to mention, I rarely agree with Mr. Borski's speculations...\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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