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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/328",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 328,
    "subject": "Silk Stalking",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-06-05T20:45:44+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-05T20:45:44+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0329@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Richman",
        "address": "mrichman at cybernex.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-05T20:45:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Silk Stalking",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "[paste, re Short Sun trilogy]\nIt will deal with the colonists, and will take up about twenty\nyears after the ending of \"Book of the Long Sun,\" when\nHorn is asked to return to the Whorl to bring Silk to the\ncolonized world of Blue.\n\nI read that not as starting 20 years later but as the story of the next 20\nyears, during which Silk presumably stays aboard the Whorl, or at least the\ncolonists think he does."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I was rather surprised with this announcement because I got the impression\nat the end of Exodus that the Outsider had abandoned Silk.  I don't think\nSilk would have survived to the end of the series without the active help of\nthe Outsider, and I pictured him dying a few minutes after Horn last saw him.\n\nI fould the ending to Long Sun very disturbing (even more than Urth) in that\nit seemed that Silk had been betrayed by everything he'd believed in, and\nthat all he had left was Oreb.\n\n\nMichael Richman\n380 Homans Av\nCloster, NJ  07624\nmrichman at bc.cybernex.net"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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