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  "thread": {
    "id": 912,
    "subject": "more Blue mysteries",
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    "first": "2000-08-08T13:18:13+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-08T13:18:13+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0062@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Fernando Q. Gouvea",
        "address": "fqgouvea at colby.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-08T13:18:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) more Blue mysteries",
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          "text": "As I mentioned in another email, I've just reread OBW, which was quite\nrewarding. Some things I still don't understand...\n\n1) What happened in the pit? It seems likely that Horn died and was brought\nback to life. By a neighbor? (Someone with a long nose or a spider...)\nNotice that there may be a bit of \"astral travel\" here.\n\n2) Where was Oreb? Looking for Silk? One presumes he must have come with\nHorn from the Whorl...\n\n3) What happened in the forest? Horn says he talked about the neighbor's\ngod that lives in the forest to Brother and Sister, so that seems the most\nlikely explanation.\n\n4) What does \"Wijzer warned me\" on page 366 refer to?\n\n5) I still don't understand the Horn/Babbie bit. First of all, Babbie was\nsupposedly left in Pajarocu, so how does he suddenly show up? The sequence\nis sort of like this (starting on page 376):\n\n - Horn goes to sleep\n - A period that seems long to him passes\n - He hears himself calling Babbie\n - He gets up on his hands and knees (all the motions for the next couple\n   of paragraphs are consistent with him having taken the shape of Babbie,\n   but then what of the references to clothes below?)\n - The inhumi are gone\n - He crawls out of the hut, sees the fire, etc. (so he is still in the\n   boat - if he is now in Babbie's body, where is Horn's body?)\n - He hears someone calling for Babbie from the shore, and understands he\n   is being called.\n - He describes his clothes, trousers, waistband, etc.\n\n6) Clearly the events at the very end of OBW are very important. Who are\nthe Brother and Sister?\n\n7) Has anyone figured out the geography? How are the cities in IGJ located\nin relation to Gaon/Han? (Close, certainly, but is it the same river?) \n\nOK, enough questions. I'm going through IGJ again, enjoying myself every\ninch of the way.\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\nYesterday upon the stair\nI met a man who wasn't there.\nHe wasn't there again today --\nI think he's from the CIA.\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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