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  "thread": {
    "id": 1294,
    "subject": "Too-Lupine Narrators",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2001-03-28T09:24:36+00:00",
    "last": "2001-03-28T09:24:36+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0494@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-03-28T09:24:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Too-Lupine Narrators",
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          "text": "Folks have complained that Horn's children wouldn't write that way, that\nit is implausible that they would write a narrative that deliberately\nhides the protagonist's identity until the \"gotcha\" moment at the very end\nwhere they write, \"Silk nodded.\"\n\nI think this is a misunderstanding.  I think Horn's kids faced the same\nproblem that drives us to write about \"Hornsilk\" or \"Silkhorn,\" that they\nbelieved that this man was somehow both Silk and Horn and that rather than\nuse some awkward amalgam name like Passilk, they just didn't call him\nanything until the point in the story where he had changed and it then\nseemed appropriate just to call him Silk.\n\nIn other words, they didn't wait to call him Silk in order to keep the\nreader in suspense, they waited to call him Silk until he actually was\nSilk.\n\nWolfe, of course, is doing both.\n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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