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  "thread": {
    "id": 1233,
    "subject": "godling as assassin of Silk",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-02-26T16:40:54+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-27T15:40:54+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0361@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-26T16:40:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: godling as assassin of Silk",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "vizcacha having written:\n\n<In fact, spinning this into more of an idea, what if Horn/Silk's wounds\nwere\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\nThis was pretty much the argument I made in my first Piggie post, only I had\nPig being the godling involved, and postulated slightly different motives\nthan you for the dastardly deed.\n\nBut as far as your core thesis goes--that a godling may have killed\nSilk--I'm right with you.\n\nI've also speculated with David DiGiacomo in private correspondence that the\nperson who attempted to assassinate Caldé Mint might have been a godling.\nMint, as she tells us, put a halt to the leaving of all landers shortly\nafter the first darkday--thus putting her at odds with the godlings'\ninstructions at the time.\n\nNow for the tie-in question. Up until what point did the godlings preach\ntheir thou-must-leave-the-whorl dictate? Is it just a coincidence that the\nfirst time we hear the new message about staying is shortly after Horn has\ncome to the Whorl via the Silk transfusion? Why now, and not earlier/later?\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0388@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Endymion9",
        "address": "endymion9 at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-27T15:40:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: godling as assassin of Silk",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0012-0361@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Robert Borski wrote:\nUp until what point did the godlings preach their thou-must-leave-the-whorl\ndictate? Is it just a coincidence that the first time we hear the new\nmessage about staying is shortly after Horn has come to the Whorl via the\nSilk transfusion? Why now, and not earlier/later?"
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          "text": "My opinion I suggested in an earlier post.  I think the godlings message did\nnot change until after Horn had interfaced with the godling.  I think Horn\ngave a report of the (sorry) state of Blue/Green.  I think at this time Silk\ntook control of the Passilk mainframe entity and wrote off Blue/Green and\nbegan the mission of preparing to leave the whorl and look for a better\nlocation.\n\nDennis/Endy\nhttp://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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