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  "thread": {
    "id": 1382,
    "subject": "A Point about Astral Travel (was re: The Secret: a new theory)",
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    "first": "2001-04-20T10:40:08+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-20T14:31:38+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0676@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-20T10:40:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) A Point about Astral Travel (was re: The Secret: a new theory)",
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          "text": "Also, the astral travel surprises even the inhumi who \nparticipate in it, which makes it even more unlikely that\nKrait told Horn about it. "
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "...which caused me to note something that hadn't occurred to\nme before: The Narr is capable of astral travelling only after\nhe's had his whole-body transplant. The dumb explanation would\nbe \"it's a power Silk has had all along but never knew about\nbecause he never slept around any sleeping inhumi,\" which is\npossible but not very plausible. A somewhat better explanation:\nit's somehow due to the fact that the Narr is not attached as\nfirmly to the body of Silk as most people are to their bodies.\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0679@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at ungames.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-20T14:31:38+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) A Point about Astral Travel (was re: The Secret: a",
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          "text": "At 10:40 AM 4/20/01 -0700, Blattid wrote:\nA somewhat better explanation:\nit's somehow due to the fact that the Narr is not attached as\nfirmly to the body of Silk as most people are to their bodies."
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          "text": "That's what I've always assumed--that the Neighborly process of\ntransplanting Horn's spirit into Silk's body infused the resultant person\nwith some degree of the Neighbor's unhuman physical laws, including the\ndifferent relationship with distance. "
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          "text": "Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://www.nyrsf.com\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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