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  "thread": {
    "id": 1350,
    "subject": "Jahlee's Death Again",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-12T15:51:55+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-12T15:51:55+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0600@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at home.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-12T15:51:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Jahlee's Death Again",
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          "text": "\tLet me try out an hypothesis on you that may explain some of the ending.\n\tWe start out with Horn. Horn learns about the inhumi, and even comes to \nlove Krait. He sees the evil, but also the possible good of the inhumi.\n\tHorn becomes the Narrator, who is Horn mostly (see below). The Narrator \nhas more experiences with the inhumi, learns to care for Fava and Jahlee, etc.\n\tBut right at the end, Silk begins to awaken, it seems. Assuming he did: \nWhat does Silk know about the inhumi? Nothing really. He was not with Horn, \nand was asleep during the adventures of the Narrator. Sure, he's got Horn \nwith him still (in some sense), but the more Silky the Narrator becomes, \nthe more he seems to be reacting to the inhumi the way we would expect \nsomeone without Horn's experience to react. Not only does he swiftly and \nbrutally kill Jahlee, but he's not very understanding with Jugano either.\n\tFrom the perspective of the inhumi horde, the Narrator seems to have \nabandoned the promise that they saw in him. They don't know about this \npersonality transformation and why it is happening, but they can see that \nthe Narrator has turned against them, it seems. Thus, the attack.\n\tOn the Narrator as mainly Horn: The Neighbors make their deal with Horn. A \nNeighbor accompanies Horn on Green in the city. A Neighbor sends Horn into \nSilk's wounded body. Later on, the Neighbors continue to treat the Narrator \nas the same person they've dealt with before. I think this is a problem for \nthose who think Horn died on Green. The Neighbors, we must assume, would \nknow if that were really the case. The Neighbors assume a continuity \nbetween Horn and the Narrator, which tells me that the Narrator continues \nto be mainly Horn; i.e., that Horn is alive in Silk.\n\tMaybe the Narrator is Horn-Silk until the end, and then Silk-Horn afterwards.\n\nPatera Nutria\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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