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  "thread": {
    "id": 1234,
    "subject": "RTTW spoilers--Green light/Red light",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-26T17:21:12+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-26T17:21:12+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0367@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-26T17:21:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) RTTW spoilers--Green light/Red light",
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          "text": "Robert Borski wrote:\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?"
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          "text": "One possibility that I had in mind is that the colonies on Blue (and\nGreen?) are now \"grown up enough\" that they do not need any further\nassistance from the starship, beyond the seeds.  They do not get a lot of\nfeedback from the colonies on the ship, or so it seems to me, and it may be\nthat Horn's arrival back on the ship is a trigger (alone or one of many\ndifferent ones: for example, the arrival of the delegation from Gaon at\nabout the same time) that the colonies are ready to stand on their own.\n\n=mantis=\n\nSirius Fiction\nCatalog and errata sheet at http://www.sirius.com/~mantis/\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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