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  "thread": {
    "id": 166,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v001.n076",
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    "first": "1997-04-07T01:46:05+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0004@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Mullen",
        "address": "kieran at phyast.nhn.ou.edu"
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      "date": "1997-04-07T01:46:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re:  Digest whorl.v001.n076",
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          "text": "From: \"Alice Turner\" <al at interport.net>\nSubject: Silk vis a vis God\nDate: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:05:17 -0400\n\nWith regard to the identity of the Outsider, let me remind you of Lake,\n285, where Silk is telling Crane about his enlightenment:\n\n\"Voices...One spoke into each ear most of the time. One was very\nmasculine--not falsely deep, but solid, as if a mountain of stone were\nspeaking. The other was feminine, a sort of gentle cooing; yet both voices\nwere his...I believe, too, that the Outsider has a great many more voices\nas well. I could hear them in back of me at times, although indistinctly.\nIt was as if a crowd were waiting behind me while its leaders whispered in\nmy ears; but as if the crowd was actually all one person, somehow: the\nOutsider....\"\n\nIf that isn't Severian, I'll eat my mouse."
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          "text": "    How would you like it cooked?\n\n    \"Cooing\" seems more like a reference to the Holy Spirit, in RC tradition.\nIt has sometimes been thought of as the feminine part of the Trinity.  \nI can't see how you could get Severian to have the voice of a mountain of\nstone.  \n\n    In Genesis, God often refers to him/herself in the plural.  (This in\nitself has sparked much discussion).  This seems to me to be Wolfe's take\non this metaphor/image/idea.\n\n              Kieran Mullen"
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