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  "thread": {
    "id": 583,
    "subject": "Horn the Narrator",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-12-14T20:12:51+00:00",
    "last": "1998-12-15T10:24:49+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0067@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Terence Nickolette",
        "address": "terrynick at mediaone.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-14T20:12:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Horn the Narrator",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Kevin Maroney said of the surprise of finding Horn the narrator:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I noticed it and assumed that it was a copyediting mistake until I got to\nthe end!  I don't know what that says about me."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I had the same reaction.  I also felt I had missed some clues along the way.\n Did I?  I must have, for surely Wolfe would not have switched to first\nperson Horn at the end in order to provide a vehicle for a new series.  How\ndoes one go from Silk's epiphany to Horn narrating the tale?\n\nI'll have read more carefully when I again reread the Long Sun series.\n\n\nTerry Nickolette\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0068@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Terence Nickolette",
        "address": "terrynick at mediaone.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-14T20:26:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Horn the Narrator",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0067@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Kevin Maroney said of the surprise of finding Horn the narrator:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I noticed it and assumed that it was a copyediting mistake until I got to\nthe end!  I don't know what that says about me."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I had the same reaction.  I also felt I had missed some clues along the way.\n Did I?  I must have, for surely Wolfe would not have switched to first\nperson Horn at the end in order to provide a vehicle for a new series.  How\ndoes one go from Silk's epiphany to Horn narrating the tale?\n\nI'll have read more carefully when I again reread the Long Sun series.\n\n\nTerry Nickolette\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0070@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-15T10:24:49+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Horn the Narrator",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0068@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Terence Nickolette wrote:\nHow does one go from Silk's epiphany to Horn narrating the tale?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "(Ah, this bit of my last post belonged here.)\n\nThe first paragraph of Nightside identifies the enlightenment narrative as\nthe way Silk \"talked about it afterward\" -- so that tells us where Horn\ngets it, and is a very subtle clue that everything we read about Silk's\ninner life may be from how he related it to others. \n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
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