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  "thread": {
    "id": 692,
    "subject": "Did Horn Have \"Help\" With BLS?",
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    "first": "1999-10-14T10:56:52+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-14T10:56:52+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0113@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-14T10:56:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Did Horn Have \"Help\" With BLS?",
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          "text": "Vizcacha wrote:\nThe Writing of TBotLS.  Speculations on how Horn might have had help writing\n_The Book of Silk_ seem to forget that he did have help, from his wife\nNettle.\nHe also describes how they reconstructed scenes where they weren't\npresent, by\ninventing \"typical\" dialogue that led to the outcomes they knew.  I might\nalso\nmention that the style in TBoS is quite different from that of OBW, and I\nattribute that to Nettle's influence.  Horn, on several occasions, laments\nthat\nwithout her organizational ability, the present work will be inferior. "
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          "text": "\tHow dare you imply that I'd forgotten Nettle's help? Don't forget that\nNutria's eat Vizcachas alive bite by bite (whatever Vizcachas are)! Hyoomr\naside, I still find it hard to understand how either of them could have\nknown many, many of the things in TBLS. Inventing \"typical\" dialogue is a\nlong way from the large stretches of material they had to learn from other\npeople, and I'm having trouble thinking of how they might have learned all\nthis stuff, and from whom. But what I really need to do is re-read the\nQuartet through Horn's eyes, and see if it is really possible that he and\nNettle could have written it without \"supernatural\" help. Has anyone done\nthis?\n\tIt's a bit like going to see \"The Sixth Sense\" a second time, and noticing\nhow everything is completely different the second time through. Does it\nwork to re-read TBLS this way?\n\tSorry to bring this up if it has already been discussed on this list. I've\ngot all the old posts filed but I've been too busy to stay active for many\nmonths, and I've not had time to read them all.\n\nEnraged Nutria\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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