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  "thread": {
    "id": 1339,
    "subject": "Nettle's motive",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-11T08:33:43+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-11T08:33:43+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0573@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-11T08:33:43+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Nettle's motive",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Nicholas Gevers wrote:\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"
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          "text": "Don't have the passage in front of me, but in OBW, Horn tells Wizer that\nhe wants to see Silk again and talk with him more than anything else in\nthe whorl, and \"Nettle feels the same.\"\n\nI think Horn is pretty much gone at the end of RTTW, and that Nettle knows\nhe's dead.  So with her husband dead and (as you note) her children grown,\nshe follows her desire to be with Silk, not as a wife, but as a disciple.\n\nSeawrack, I don't understand, but I think that Scylla knowing how to\nsummon her is a clue.  I'm guessing her leaving has more to do with the\ndesigns of the undines, the Mother wanting to send her to other whorls,\nthan any attachment she has to Silk.  Why Silk would summon her, I don't\nknow.\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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