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  "thread": {
    "id": 910,
    "subject": "IGJ, Major Spoiler re Silk",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2000-08-08T10:06:21+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-08T13:20:59+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0059@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-08T10:06:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) IGJ, Major Spoiler re Silk",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "My sense of it is that Silk committed suicide (with knife) by himself next\nto Hyacinth in her coffin.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0063@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Fernando Q. Gouvea",
        "address": "fqgouvea at colby.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-08T13:20:59+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) IGJ, Major Spoiler re Silk",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0011-0059@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "**** On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:06:21 -0700, mantis said:\n\nmantis> My sense of it is that Silk committed suicide (with knife) by\nmantis> himself next to Hyacinth in her coffin.\n\nThat's how I read it too. But what do we then make of the \"searching for\nSilk\" passages?\n\nFernando"
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          "text": "Fernando Q. Gouvea                      \nDepartment of Mathematics          Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online\nColby College                      Mathematical Association of America\nWaterville, ME 04901               http://www.maa.org\nfqgouvea at colby.edu                      \n==========================================================\n\nThe warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity\nthat would be clearly understood.\n                -- Alexander Haig\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0064@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tim Boolos",
        "address": "timboolos at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-08T10:45:05+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) IGJ, Major Spoiler re Silk",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0011-0063@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com> wrote:\nMy sense of it is that Silk committed suicide (with\nknife) by himself next\nto Hyacinth in her coffin.\n\n=mantis="
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          "text": "I pretty much agree with Mantis on this one.  Although\nI think that Silk was at the point of suicide and had\nnot actually committed the act.  The blood mentioned\nwas from the final sacrifice ala Orpine. \nIMO this is the Occam's razor: one transference, two\ndespondent spirits attempting to cope, some things\nhappen (to be revealed to some extent or other in\nRTW), then Silk's body containing Horn's and Silk's\nspirit is abducted by Hari Mau."
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