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  "thread": {
    "id": 1334,
    "subject": "Silk Insane?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-10T22:38:22+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-10T22:38:22+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0563@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-10T22:38:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Silk Insane?",
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          "text": "Rereading OBW, I was trying to make sense of the Rajan's musings that Silk\nmight be on Blue somewhere, or have died or Green.  Could Horn be that\ndeluded even after the confrontation with Mint?  Might this outward search\nfor Silk be a sort of subconscious goad to Silk's persona--if Horn calls\nout \"Silk? Silk?\" enough times, he might eventually pop up and say \"Here I\nam!\"?  The Rajan writes: \"Searching does not neccessarily imply movement\"\n(p. 18).\n\nBut then I read this comment after the Rajan has made reference to slavery\nin New Viron: \"On Green I met a man who could not see the inhumi.  They\nwere there, but his mind would not accept them...In just the same way, my\nown interior sight refuses to focus upon matters I find agonizing.  In\nErmine's I dreamed that I had killed Silk...\" (p. 74).\n\nI can accept that such a person as he describes, unable to see inhumi,\ncould exist, but I would not consider him sane.  If the Silk(Horn?) is\nunable to accept who he is \"in just the same way\" then he is insane and I\nthink my attempt to find a coherent explanation of what Horn and/or Silk\nknows about himself is futile.\n\nThe problem is, the Narrator doesn't otherwise seem insane.  I guess Horn\nis a sufficient crutch until Silk's mind can heal.  The bigger problem I\nhave is accepting that Silk could be driven insane by Hyacinth's death.  I\nguess that Horn (and we readers of The Book of Silk) never knew how\nscrewed up Silk really was.  \n\n(Maybe his brain was somehow adversely affected by the upload to\nMainframe?  Making him too-dependent on (Kypris-posessed?) Hyacinth?)\n\n(And if the Urbasecundus copy of Starcrosser's Landfall were being\nmade today, don't you think 'Mainframe' would be translated 'Network'\ninstead?  I guess were lucky it wasn't rendered 'MultivAC.')\n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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