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  "thread": {
    "id": 1409,
    "subject": "The Secret: protection, not conversion (actual evidence!)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-04-26T13:49:44+00:00",
    "last": "2001-04-26T13:49:44+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0747@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-04-26T13:49:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) The Secret: protection, not conversion (actual evidence!)",
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          "text": "I have to abandon my nice new theory on the Secret.  I just noticed that on\np. 350 of the hardback OBW, Horn says: \"If only we protected one another,\nthey would all be idiots or worse.  As it is, they always get enough to keep\nthem going.\"  So it has to be boring old keep-everybody-safe, not the idea\nthat the inhumi will become good by drinking the blood of good people,\nattractive though this is.  (Unless Horn has in mind two different ways of\nreducing the inhumi to animals, and there's no evidence for this.)\n\nThis quote also puts the kibosh on the theory that when Horn talks about\nreducing the inhumi, he only means the ones who don't become human: he\nclearly says \"all.\"\n\nDisappointing as this is for me, it does support my view that Wolfe regards\nthe inhumi as they are now, with human spirits in animal bodies, as\nmonstrosities which should not exist.  (This is the difference Jahlee's\nrevelation makes to us, if not necessarily to Horn.)\n\n--Adam\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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