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  "thread": {
    "id": 47,
    "subject": "Pike's Ghost; Hyacinth _is_ a spy; \"Silk _is_ Calde\"",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-01-27T16:09:29+00:00",
    "last": "1997-01-27T16:09:29+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0082@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-27T16:09:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Pike's Ghost; Hyacinth _is_ a spy; \"Silk _is_ Calde\"",
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          "text": "1) Charles Dye suggests that Patera Pike's ghost may have been an\naquastor, which is a beguiling interpretation, particularly as it would\nstrengthen the feeling that we are still in the universe of _New Sun_. \nSilk remarks at several points that there is a glass in the manse (but a\nnon-working one, alas), so we potentially have the requisite computing\npower available nearby.\n\nHowever, I don't think aquastors turn into small dark things that fly\nout windows, so to me it's not quite an adequate explanation.  On the\nother hand, Quetzal never appears in the shape of any human but himself,\nat least to my knowledge.\n\nWe see him as (1) himself, most of the time, (2) by implication as \"an\nold man with wings\" (Teasel), (3) by implication as a large snake\n(Villus), (4) obscurely in winged serpent form when he slithers out the\nwindow into his tamarind tree.  Others?\n\nSo that's why I'm still puzzled about Patera Pike's ghost.\n\n2) On a completely different (and old) subject, I note that when Silk\nand Crane are imprisoned in the submarine, Crane admits that Hyacinth\nwas working for him.  So at least indirectly she was a spy for\nTrivigaunte, and it's easy to imagine she might still be one later.\n\n3) Who was writing \"Silk is Calde\" five floors up?  From the context,\nearly in _Calde_, it might have been Quetzal, or maybe Mucor.  What\nphysical abilities does she have during her out-of-body experiences?\n\n     Dave Lebling\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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