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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/334",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 334,
    "subject": "Silk lives!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-06-09T12:08:12+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-09T12:08:12+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0337@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Cash",
        "address": "cash at rsn.hp.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-09T12:08:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Silk lives!",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Michael Richman wrote:\nI 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."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't think the Outsider abandoned Silk at all--I think Silk was\nforced to realize how badly he had misunderstood the Outsider. Nor do I\nthink that Silk died; he's a survivor, and he's likely to live through\neven the worst disaster--he can't help it. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I 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."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Rest assured that I found it equally disturbing! (And I wasn't so sure\nabout Oreb...) Now that I've had time to think about it, though, I'm\nreally interested to see what Silk does next. How does he react to his\nworld crashing into pieces? Does he come to understand that the Outsider\nis a spiritual God, and not at all like the programs in Mainframe? Does\nhe come to a better understanding of Love (and that Hyacinth isn't its\nembodiment?)\n\nRock"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "=============================================================================\n            Peter T. Cash -- Documentation Systems Development\n   \t             Hewlett-Packard, Convex Division, \n\t\t P.O.Box 833851 Richardson, TX 75083-3851\n     voice: (214) 497-4389 - FAX: (214) 497-4500 - cash at rsn.hp.com"
        }
      ]
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