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  "thread": {
    "id": 16,
    "subject": "more on the airship",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-01-05T11:32:42+00:00",
    "last": "1997-01-05T11:32:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0001-0025@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CoxRathvon",
        "address": "coxrathvon at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-05T11:32:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) more on the airship",
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          "text": "I thank Rich Skrenta and Peter Cash for replying to my queries about the\ntop-of-the-airship conversation between Silk and Horn.  I am almost finished\nwith my second reading of \"Exodus,\" and I think I now agree with Rich Skrenta\nthat as Mucor possessed Horn, it upset Horn's balance; it's not a matter of\nSilk actually attempting suicide, or of anything else sinister.  Also, I'm\nregarding as a possibility Peter Cash's thoughtful suggestion that Hyacinth\nmight be--or might once have been--a spy for Trivagaunti.  At any rate it's\nclear that she has a complicated past (or something about her nature) that\nhas been kept secret from Silk.  I wish I understood it better.  Evidently\nSilk's intuition about it--combined with his fatigue, his dawning\nunderstanding of Pas's plan, and the frustration of his efforts to establish\npeace among the factions in Viron--has thrown him into a despondent\ncontemplation of humanity's frailties and evil.   Apparently he recovers from\nthis despondency through his talk with Horn.  I would continue to welcome\nmore thoughts on this key scene from other readers.\n--Henry Rathvon\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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