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  "thread": {
    "id": 28,
    "subject": "Vampires, Artistic license",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-01-17T09:40:09+00:00",
    "last": "1997-01-17T09:40:09+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0001-0045@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Doug Eigsti",
        "address": "douge at nti.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-17T09:40:09+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Vampires, Artistic license",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]"
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "From: douge at nti.com (Doug Eigsti)\n\tYes you remember correctly. The passage mentioning Teasel's\naffliction is in NIGHTSIDE pages 219 & 233. Silk observes that she\nlooks\npale and has two puncture marks on her neck, which he misinterprets as\nOwl\nbites."
        },
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Dave,\n\n\tMore on Teasel: LAKE page 62.5 Silk mentions about her bite by \nsome sort of bat, according to Dr.Crane, \"but she herself said it was an \nold man with wings\". Shades of Bella Lugosi."
        },
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          "text": "I started rereading \"Exodus..\" last night, and started with the Dramatis\nPersonae.  Sure enough, Teasel's entry says she was attacked by an\ninhumi.  In fact, she's not the only one listed as such there.  I'll\nleave the other as an exercise.  This (for me at least) puts a slightly\naltered spin on Quetzal.\n\nOn the subject of taluses, there is also a remark early in \"Exodus,\"\nwhen Silk first suggests a visit to the factory (to repair Marble's\nhand), that confirms that taluses are a lower order of being, not truly\nas sophisticated as a true chem.\n\nAs I reread, I'm also noticing places where Horn's state of mind or\nopinions are expressed in \"omniscient narrator\" form, and this is before\nthe \"I\" moment.  This is rare (possibly even non-existent) for the other\ncharacters, unless the narration is from their POV.\n\n     Dave Lebling\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)"
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          "text": "\tConsider this; if Horn is the author of THE BOOK OF SILK how much \nof what we are reading is fiction, to Horn. Horn was not present for many \nof the events in the story. Did he get his information from Silk \ndirectly, or did he embellish the story to gain reader acceptance? Like \nmany a biography today much of the text may be pure speculation by Horn \ntrying to reconstruct the events. Shakespeare can be used as an example of \nthis artistic license taken by the biographer.\n\n=Doug Eigsti=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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