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  "thread": {
    "id": 1384,
    "subject": "Silk's death (spiritual vs. physical)",
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    "first": "2001-04-20T13:17:14+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-20T13:17:14+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0678@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-20T13:17:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Silk's death (spiritual vs. physical)",
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          "text": "Kevin M. writing:\n\n<<...just as others believe ... that Silk has committed suicide or\naccidentally bled to dead from cuts inflicted during the grieving process.>>\n\n<Does anyone believe the latter? Silk's body is healthy, but his spirit/soul\nis dying, implies the Neighbor.>\n\nThen Herr Schabe geschriebt:\n\n<As the originator (as far as I know) of the Silk-cut-himself-in- grief\nhypothesis, I have to point out that this hypothesis does _not_ involve Silk\nbleeding to death, accidentally or otherwise.\n\n<In fact, I profoundly doubt the value or validity of _any_ theory that\ninvolves Silk being (physically) dead at the time Horn \"possesses\" him. The\nwhole point of what the Neighbor offers Horn is to take a living soul from a\ndying body and put it into a living body with a dying soul. (My wording; I\ndon't have the text before me.)>\n\nHere's the exact quote from IGJ, p. 127:\n\n\"I can send your spirit into someone else, into someone whose own spirit is\ndying. If you wish, I will find someone in the whorl in which you were born.\nThen there will be one whole man there, instead of two dying men, one here\nand another there.\"\n\nLike so much of Wolfe, a passage couched in ambiguity, and therefore grist\nfor us exegetes. But to my mind, it can be read either way. That Silk has\ndepaired and only his \"spirit is dying.\" Or that Silk and Horn are both\nmortally wounded and therefore \"two dying men.\"\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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