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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/861",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 861,
    "subject": "First impressions of IGJ (slight spoilers)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-07-21T02:37:13+00:00",
    "last": "2000-07-21T02:37:13+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0397@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Christopher Culver",
        "address": "new_sun at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-07-21T02:37:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) First impressions of IGJ (slight spoilers)",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Hi all,\n\nBecause this will contain some slight spoilers:\n\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n*SPOILER SPACE*\n\n1)Lots more information about who \"Horn\" (or, more accurately, the Rajan, or \nIncanto, or whoever this man is) really is. What strikes me as very odd, \nhowever, is Wolfe's characteristic way of making his godlike (or simply \npowerful) characters totally unself-conscious of their power. I'm reminded \nof Severian who didn't really seem to care about his apotheosis, Silk, who \nalso didn't seem to take it as anything special, and now Horn. Why does it \nnot phase Horn that everybody he meets bows to him? Maybe it just got old \nafter he arrived in Gaon and now it is nothing remarkable.\n\n2) Wolfe uses Italian now, interesting. I'm sure using an Italian dictionary \non the character's names will yield some enlightening information.\n\n3) Horn tends to sound in several places like Alden Dennis Weer. I wonder if \nthis is just because people who have died tend to think like this in Wolfe's \nmind, or Wolfe is simply reusing a previous mode of narration.\n\n4) Nessus's cameo was rather amusing, but I wonder how it will be fleshed \nout in _Return to the Whorl_.\n\n5) Horn still thinks of Pas as a god. Hopefully he'll rid himself of this \nnotion by the end of the series. Although, \"god\" has always had a rather \ndifferent meaning in the BotLS and BotSS.\n\nCheers,\n\nChristopher CULVER <new_sun at hotmail.com>"
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