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  "thread": {
    "id": 1324,
    "subject": "Brother and Sister",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-08T02:47:29+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-08T02:47:29+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0547@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-08T02:47:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Brother and Sister",
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          "text": "William Ansley, in a curmudgeonly mode, having written:\n\n<What do I mean by \"loose ends\"? Well, if I had the time and energy (which I\ncurrently do not and almost certainly will not) I believe I could make up an\nimpressively lengthy list. To take just one example, the \"brother and\nsister\" section toward the end of OBW. Is there anyone here who understands\nit? Is there anyone here who feels that the book/trilogy is a better work\nbecause this passage is in it?>\n\nWell, for starters, the Brother and Sister section at the end of OBW is but\none of many in the SHORT SUN trilogy where disparate individuals who are not\nactually related by blood are still able to forge loving, familial-type\nbonds.\n\nHorn, for example, has a number of pseudo-children, from Brother and Sister\nto Krait and Jahlee to Fava and Mora.\n\nHornSilk, meanwhile, has Hide and Hoof (and vice versa), while the Mother\nhas Seawrack and Maytara Marble has Mucor--even as Fava and Mora love each\nother as much as sisters, just as Pig and Horn do brothers. Ditto for\nGreater Scylla and the Mother. And Brother, if he really is Fava's Bricco,\nis adopted by a highborn lady of the Vanished People as a son.\n\nIt's a very Christian theme, this notion of community--love thy Neighbor\n(heh) as thy self--and it has repercusions all through the three books that\nconstitute SS, being a major leit motif.\n\nSo, yeah, obviously I disagree about your assessment of the Brother-Sister\nsection, believing it to be important, vital, and integral to the series.\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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