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  "thread": {
    "id": 895,
    "subject": "Impressions, riddles, etc. [SPOILERS]",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-08-02T11:26:42+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-02T11:26:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0034@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-02T11:26:42+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Impressions, riddles, etc. [SPOILERS]",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Alice Turner wrote:\nAsked Raymond:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I have a quick question. Why did Silk agree to become a part of Pas?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Is\nthere an explanation in the Long Sun books? Just wondering.\n\nWe have absolutely, positively no proof that he did. This was only a\nconjecture of the pre Horn/Pas Horn that it MIGHT have happened."
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          "text": "I can't find the spot now, but iirc somewhere in IGJ Horn says \"Silk is\nnow an aspect of Pas,\" or words to that effect.  He doesn't say it as a\nconjecture, but as something definite.\n\nEven if it happened, though, Silk didn't necessarily agree to it.  His\npersonality could have been uploaded into Mainframe without his consent.\n\n--Adam\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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