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  "thread": {
    "id": 717,
    "subject": "Mucor's fish",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-11-09T13:25:46+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-11T23:30:26+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0161@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Joel Priddy",
        "address": "jpriddy at saturn.vcu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-09T13:25:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Mucor's fish",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "When I read the part where Mucor said the fish would be waiting on a rock,\nI just assumed that she possessed the fish, and drove them to leap out of\nthe water. I was confused that Horn, who clearly knows all about Mucor's\nability, didn;t assume this as well. So what am I missing? Is it stated\nsomewhere in Long Sun that Mucor can't possess little-brained animals, or\nsomething?\n\nBTW, as soon as I got my copy of _OBW_, I took the paper jacket off and\ntossed it. I recommend this to everyone because (a) the cover is tacky to\nthe\npoint of acute embarassment, and (b) the hardcover under the dustwrap is\nactually a lovely rich blue. This greatly improved the object-quality of\nthe book.\n\ncephalothorax\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0167@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-11T23:30:26+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Mucor's fish",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0161@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Joel Priddy <jpriddy at saturn.vcu.edu> wrote:\nWhen I read the part where Mucor said the fish would be waiting on a rock,\nI just assumed that she possessed the fish, and drove them to leap out of\nthe water. I was confused that Horn, who clearly knows all about Mucor's\nability, didn;t assume this as well. So what am I missing? Is it stated\nsomewhere in Long Sun that Mucor can't possess little-brained animals, or\nsomething?"
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          "text": "I have to admit that when I read the fish story, I thought: telekinesis.\nThen when Horn thought someone else was responsible, I remembered: Oh,\nyeah. Mucor doesn't telekines (say tel-u-kin-ees... it's a joke).\n\nI agree that Mucor possessing the fish seems to satisfy Occam's razor\nbetter than invoking a mysterious third party but I just don't remember the\nextent of Mucor's powers. As far as I can remember, the only beings she\npossessed in _The Book of the Long Sun_ were human. Aside from possession,\nthe only other power she has that I recall is the \"astral projection\"\nability that she uses to talk to Silk, at Horn's request, in _On Blue's\nWaters_.\n\nOf course, we only have her word for it that she actually \"talked\" to Silk\nand for what he \"said\" to her.\n\nWilliam Ansley\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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