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  "thread": {
    "id": 1231,
    "subject": "Pigs have no wings, but might be gods",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-02-27T02:13:54+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-27T02:13:54+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0357@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lebling",
        "address": "dlebling at ucentric.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-27T02:13:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Pigs have no wings, but might be gods",
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          "text": "<<From: \"Patrick O'Leary\" <poleary at cecom.com>\nPig as Godling:\nYes, the reference to \"ears\" and \"claws\" is probably the best  evidence I've\nseen.\nGood fishing! Yet, for me, it still doesn't ring true. I guess I'd believe\nit if\nI saw Pig fulfilling the function of a godling--for aren't they just\nclarions\nfor the gods of mainframe? \"Leave the Whorl!\" or \"Stay on The whorl!\"\nIt's not a question of size. >>\n\nPig's mercenary troop was being used to drive people from the Whorl. He says\nso explicitly. (Don't have the book handy here at work, so no page ref).\nThis qualifies as \"Leave the Whorl!\" Also, remember that the Pig we see is\nPig/Silk, and his behavior is rather different than the inaugmented Pig's.\n\nHaving met only one for-certain godling, how do we know what the rest are\nlike? Some of them are clearly aggressive: witness the statement the farmer\n(or his wife?) makes about Horn's wounds, that they might have been made by\na (small) godling. The godling we meet later is more-or-less friendly, not\nall are such.\n\nIn fact, spinning this into more of an idea, what if Horn/Silk's wounds were\nmade by a godling? I brought this idea up before but didn't have any idea\nfor a motive. It occurs to me that if a godling commanded Silk to preach the\nend of the exodus, he might well have refused, even to the point of\nviolence. A thin reed to build a theory on, I know...\n\n    Dave Lebling\n    aka vizcacha\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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