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  "thread": {
    "id": 878,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v011.n001",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-07-26T02:15:21+00:00",
    "last": "2000-07-26T02:15:21+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0010@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Levitan",
        "address": "josh_levitan at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-07-26T02:15:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v011.n001",
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          "text": "From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>\n\nI think it's the same reason why the Neighbors won't tell Horn about\ntheir gods: it's better if he comes to figure it out for himself (with\nsome hints)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "As far as Hide is concerned, it's logically better for him to figure out who \nIncanto is.  However, from an emotional standpoint, this makes little to no \nsense.  This is a guy who's been apart from most of his family for a couple \nof years now, lost an adopted son, lost his real son, etc.  So, you'd think \nhe'd just come out with it...  Does make for suspenseful reading, though."
        },
        {
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          "text": "That the Neighbors aren't completely forthcoming seems not so much to\nsuggest (as Adam speculated) that they believe each race should stick\nto its own gods as that they believe the Outsider (by whatever name\nthey know Him) is in the process of revealing Himself to Horn as it\nis, and that it isn't their place to, say, disillusion him about Pas."
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          "text": "Their reluctance to talk about their own gods goes beyond that.  They don't \neven want to confirm or deny that the Mother was their sea goddess.  In that \ncase, Horn did figure it out for himself."
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          "text": "Adam Stephanides wrote:\nI think you're thinking of this dialogue from the last chapter, where\njust after Jahlee has argued that she is human inside:\n\n   \"What about the inhumi who destroyed the vanished people, \tJahlee?\nWere they human too?\"\n   \"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."
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          "text": "Well, that's a good point.  But I was actually referring to the other \ndialogue, earlier, I believe, when he asked her what it would have been like \nfor the Inhumi that fed on the Neighbors, and she replies \"It must have been \nwonderful.\"\n\nOne other thing.  I know that Horn and the folks on Green discuss this, but \nit didn't make much sense to me (perhaps the lack of sleep, again).  How did \nQuetzal and company get aboard the Whorl?  It wasn't from flying there -- \nthe distance was too great.  And the humans theorize that some of the \nlanders left and came back up, but Mainframe tells them otherwise.  And Horn \nsays that he believes that that particular information was well-intentioned, \nbut wrong.  So did the Inhumi reprogram Mainframe?  This would be hard with \ntheir lack of tool-wielding ability.  Did their slaves on the Whorl do it?\n\nNarwhal"
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