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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1301",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1301,
    "subject": "Twist ending?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-03-28T21:11:02+00:00",
    "last": "2001-03-28T21:11:02+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0508@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-03-28T21:11:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Twist ending?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Several people have mentioned the \"surprise\" twist at the end of RTTW,\nsome even disparaging it as Hollywoodesque.  But why is this a surprise?  \nIn every other case of a spirit inhabiting someone else's body, all the\ncharacters regard the persona original to that body as the \"real\" person\nand the other spirit as a (usually transient) intruder.  Horn wouldn't\nstart calling Oreb \"Scylla\" and decide that Oreb was no longer present, or\nthink that Marble was really Maytera Rose now, or say that because of Silk\nInside[TM], Pig no longer exists.  \n\nAll through RTTW, people are treating Silk exactly the same way, refusing\nto stop seeing him as Silk just because he may have a little bit of Horn\nin there.  So why should we be surprised that Silk turns out to be Silk?\n(Yes I know why, yes I was surprised, I'm just marvelling at how obvious\nit all is and how cleverly Wolfe waved it right in front of my face the\nwhole time.)\n\nHorn is dead, but he doesn't know it (even though he does).  Gee, Wolfe's\nnever done *that* before.  Doh!\n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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      ]
    }
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