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  "thread": {
    "id": 1337,
    "subject": "Not the Torah, but Torah-like",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-11T01:08:12+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-11T01:08:12+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0569@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-11T01:08:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Not the Torah, but Torah-like",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Alga wrote:\n\n\"Oh, honestly, what nonsense--this isn't the Torah!\nIt's not my fault that Wolfe abandoned Mucor, murdered\nJahlee, sent Nettle and Seawrack off on a Star Trek\nmenage a trois with the saintly Silk, ditched Babbie,\ngave us no word of Oreb and in general tossed his\nwhole story out the window--or off-planet as the case\nmay be. Leaving both Blue and Green to go to hell\ntogether, Neighbors, inhumi and whatnot. Tra-la, let's\nbe off.\"\n\nTBSS isn't the Torah, no; but as we've given PEACE,\nTHE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, and THE FIFTH HEAD OF\nCERBERUS many years to resolve and settle themselves\nin our minds, perhaps we should give TBSS more than\njust a few months.\n\nAs for this repeated criticism about TBSS's \"hurried\nending\": it's not hurried at all. It's simply that GW\nhas spent seven volumes building up characters and\nscenarios, and he rightly assumes that readers who\nhave stuck with him this far know those characters and\nsituations well enough by now to infer their final\nmotivations and destinies. To invoke Kim Stanley\nRobinson again: GW is the king of the slingshot\nending; his texts move on and work on beyond the page;\nread in the spirit of the enterprise. Thus, to repeat\nwhat I and others have pointed out: Mucor is now old\nenough to look after herself; just in case, Babbie\nremains on Blue to keep many eyes on her; Jahlee is a\npredator and jealously in love with Horn to boot, and\nis fully capable of a crime of passion on Lizard\nIsland, just as is Horn himself, a mere human when all\nis said and done; Oreb accompanies Silk to the Whorl\nagain, as you would expect; Nettle ditto, because the\nonly remnant of her husband is in Silk, Old Viron is\nher old home anyway, and her children are all grown up\non Blue and Green; Seawrack ditto, because she and\nSilk form an archetypal couple once Hyacinth is out of\nthe way, and Horn (again) is still in Silk; and Blue\nand Green are left to their own devices because that\nis how God governs the Earth and its humans, giving\nthem free will.\n\n--Nick Gevers."
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