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  "thread": {
    "id": 811,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v010.n099",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-04-07T09:50:22+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-07T09:50:22+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0305@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Wells",
        "address": "adw at ovum.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-07T09:50:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) RE: Digest whorl.v010.n099",
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          "text": "From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>\nMy point was that Horn apparently thinks that Silk may have been on Blue\nall the time he (Horn) was going to _Whorl_ and back.  And it's hard to\nsee how he could think this if he knew he was in Silk's body."
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          "text": "As has been noted before, \"Silk's body\" may be ambiguous.\n\nIt seems very likely to me that the \"special embryo\" from which Silk was\ngrown was one of many clones(*). Maybe Horn has somehow gotten into one of\nthese. In which case, is he \"really\" Silk? (or really \"Silk\"? Or even\n\"really Silk\"?).\n\nStrikes me as exactly the kind of thing which Wolfe might be interested in\nwriting about..\n\n(old) newt\n\n(*) And by the by, it also seems likely to me (as has also been discussed\nbefore) that Silk's embryo(s) were custom-designed as a receptacle for\nPas/Typhon when the Plan was carried out and Mainframe was being evacuated\nalong with the Whorl.\nIn fact, if Typhon was sensible, he would have had his genetic engineers\ncook up a bunch of possible receptacles so that he could choose one \"off the\npeg\", according to his divine whim, on arrival at Green/Blue.\n...unless Silk's embryo(s) are clones of the _original_ Typhon body.. Has\nthis been discussed?\n(Sorry, slightly lengthy footnote there :-)\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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