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  "thread": {
    "id": 1255,
    "subject": "3rd person authors",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-03-07T16:43:40+00:00",
    "last": "2001-03-07T21:11:48+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0414@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Sheila Herndon",
        "address": "skherndon at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-03-07T16:43:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) 3rd person authors",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Hi,\n\nI was just wondering if it could be possible that\nthe kids *did* write those sections - but, in fact,\nnot as stylishly as we're reading them. and the reason\nthey're as stylish as we're reading them is becuase\nthe story of Horn has turned into a religious text,\nand has been \"intepreted\" over the years by better\nwriters? (Though, I guess not a good explanation for\nPig's h'ears.)\n\nmimosa"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0415@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-03-07T21:11:48+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) 3rd person authors",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0012-0414@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Shiela Herndon wrote:\nI was just wondering if it could be possible that the kids *did*\nwrite those sections - but, in fact, not as stylishly as we're\nreading them. and the reason they're as stylish as we're reading\nthem is becuase the story of Horn has turned into a religious text,\nand has been \"intepreted\" over the years by better writers? (Though,\nI guess not a good explanation for Pig's h'ears.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, it leaves a lot to be desired as an explanation (since Hoof's\nsection is so different) but even though these kids haven't had a\nstrong literary education, Hoof and Hide were raised by (and Daisy\ntaught by one of) the authors of _The Book of Silk_."
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
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