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  "thread": {
    "id": 667,
    "subject": "BLUE -- Jahlee, Chota, narrator/protagonist",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-08T01:17:49+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-08T01:17:49+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0068@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Latro1",
        "address": "latro1 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-08T01:17:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) BLUE -- Jahlee, Chota, narrator/protagonist",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "1. I loved the passage where the Rajan of Gaon compares Jahlee to \na chameleon-like lizard and Evensong says \"They catch insects with \ntheir tongues.\" Jahlee replies \"We do the same, rani.\" I took this to\nmean the inhumi ensnare humans with words, which is a wonderful,\nchilling joke on Jahlee's part. Especially when you find out about\nthe lander.\n\n2. Did you notice how Horn/Silk/Babbie's emotional distance from \nEvensong changed throughout the later part of the book? First he \ncalls her Chota, which is just her nickname, then Evensong, \nthen back to Chota and finally \"the Hannese girl.\" Could these \nbe clues to identity of the narrator?\n\n3. Speaking of the narrator, perusing the list of Proper Names in the \nText, we see that Horn is the protagonist of the book, but the\nRajan of Gaon is the narrator.\n\n4. I also peeked back at Gods, Persons, and Animals Mentioned in\nthe Text for the last three Long Sun books and in Calde of the Long \nSun, Horn is listed as \"the student punished by ROSE for imitating\nSilk.\" Foreshadowing?\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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