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  "thread": {
    "id": 1515,
    "subject": "(no subject)",
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    "first": "2002-01-02T21:55:15+00:00",
    "last": "2002-01-02T21:55:15+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n179.5@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan4 at home.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-01-02T21:55:15+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl)",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 03:38 PM 1/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:\nOn Wed, 2 Jan 2002, James Jordan wrote:\n\n[regarding \"Olmo has fallen\" = \"Elm has fallen\"]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "Ack!  What a great catch.  This proves the narrator is a ghost!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Ah. Then the narrator is Horn, who is a ghost in Silk's body -- at least\nuntil Silk is resurrected by Severian and takes over, submerging Horn to\n\"Thecla status.\" Right?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Yes and no.  I was sorta joking.  Horn's ghost is in there, but I think\nthere's evidence that Silk exerts an increasing influence on the\nnarrator's perspective throughout all three books, which I'll lay out in a\npost coming soon (I've been re-reading the books during Christmas).\n\n-Rostrum"
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          "text": "You sly dog! Well, I was very taken with the notion that Severian brings \nSilk back. I'll look forward to how you set out the whole matter. Until \nthen, I continue to think that the narrator's consciousness is Horn, though \nsince he is in the biological body of Silk, with Silk's physical brain, \netc., he cannot escape acting more Silkishly than he did when he was Horn \nin Horn's body. That is, until the encounter with Sev.\n         Looking forward to it.\n\nNutria, the Rat"
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