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  "thread": {
    "id": 875,
    "subject": "Humans, inhumi and irony [mild SPOILERS]",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-07-25T09:59:39+00:00",
    "last": "2000-07-25T09:59:39+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0007@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-07-25T09:59:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Humans, inhumi and irony [mild SPOILERS]",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Josh Levitan wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "*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*\nWhen Jahlee(? I've had\nabout five hours of sleep in the past few days, so my memory's a little hazy\nat this point, and a marathon reading session didn't help, but I'm pretty\nsure it was Jahlee and not Fava) is asked by Horn what the inhumi who fed on\nthe Neighbors would have been like, she says \"Wonderful,\" or something to\nthat effect."
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          "text": "I think you're thinking of this dialogue from the last chapter, where\njust after Jahlee has argued that she is human inside:\n\n\t   \"What about the inhumi who destroyed the vanished people, \tJahlee? \nWere they human too?\"\n\t   \"They were dead before I was born.\" (376)\n\nJahlee doesn't recognize the irony of Horn's question (or if she does,\nshe doesn't mention it), and I missed it too on my first reading.  But\nwhat Jahlee should have said was \"See?  That proves we're human!\"  I'm\nsure that from the author of THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS this irony is\nintentional.\n\n--Adam\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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