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  "thread": {
    "id": 679,
    "subject": "Gospel of Silk Acc. to Horn",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-10-12T14:16:01+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-12T14:16:01+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0090@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-12T14:16:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Gospel of Silk Acc. to Horn",
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          "text": "To expand on what I wrote before, try this out:\n\tTBLS sure contains a LOT of stuff that Horn would have no way of knowing,\nunless he was tagging along and spying all throughout. But that's not\nlikely. He'd have to be several places at once for one thing. Also, the\npeople who might have told him a bunch of stuff are separated from him at\nthe end of the narrative, so it's doubtful he learned much from Auk,\nChenille, Silk, etc. \n\tHorn THINKS that he was embellishing and embroidering these parts of his\nbook. Was he?\n\tWolfe has all kinds of things in the narrative from many sources, but\nbasically it follows the Gospels and Acts, with Silk as a kind of\nChrist(like) figure. Go with Wolfe to Christian/Catholic theology for a\nsecond. Jesus dies and is resurrected, \"marries\" the wayward Church\nrepresented by Mary Magdelene on resurrection morning, ascends to heaven,\nsits at the right hand of the Father, and sends the Spirit. The Spirit\ninspires the apostles to recall precisely what is necessary to write the\ngospels. \n\tNow, everything except the sending of the Spirit to write the book has\nbeen noticed quite clearly in TBLS. I think we're supposed to add this step\nin also. Consider:\n\tSilk has joined Father Pas in Mainframe Heaven. I.e., his personality has\nbeen copied and downloaded into Mainframe.\n\tMainframe also has all the memories/information from all the other gods.\nThus, Mainframe knows all about Auk and Tartarus, Chenille's possessions,\nMint's possessions, and anything the gods saw as well. So, Silk has access\nto all that information.\n\tSilk is now downloaded into Horn, or at least Horn is given precisely\nthose memories that are needed for him to write his gospel. When Horn\nwrites, he is not aware of being guided, any more than the apostles of\nJesus were aware of being guided as they wrote. Horn thinks he's writing\nwhat he remembers, with some fiction thrown in. In fact, however, he's\nbeing guided by whatever the Silk information dump has put into him. That's\nwhy he knows so much stuff that by rights he should not know.\n\tOf course, at the end of OBW, Horn seems to be in some else's physical\nbody also, possibly Silk's, and so that situation goes beyond what I've\nsuggested happened at the end of TBLS.\n\nNutria\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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