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  "thread": {
    "id": 926,
    "subject": "another latecomer to the party finally finishes IGJ (spoilers)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-08-10T10:35:42+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-10T10:35:42+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0088@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-10T10:35:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) another latecomer to the party finally finishes IGJ (spoilers)",
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          "text": "Howdy folks - \n\nI've been working my way through the back issues of the Whorl list\ndigest having finally finished IGJ.  I still have a lot of questions\nand I'm still processing it all, but one question in particular hit me\nlike a bolt from the blue: was the Cumaean from BOTNS an Inhuma?\nPlease shoot me down in flames if I'm clearly and demonstrably\noverlooking some obvious reason for why that makes no sense.\n\nRandom impressions: There's something of a \"C.S. Lewis moment\" in IGJ\nwhen Incanto and company visit Nessus.  The description was (IMO) very\nevocative of the city of Charn in THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW, so much so\nthat at first I wondered if they had come to the Stone Town\n(completely abandoned as opposed to merely squalid like Nessus), which\nled to my above speculation.\n\nOther literary \"echoes\": even if Green isn't Lune, I can't help but\ndetect a little bit of the influence of Brian Aldiss' HOTHOUSE (aka\nTHE LONG AFTERNOON OF EARTH) much as BOTLS seemed like another take on\nAldiss's generation ship in STARSHIP (of course Aldiss didn't invent\nthe concept, but he did have a priest as one of the major characters).\nI think there was even a reference to green spiders (the moon of\nHOTHOUSE is inhabited by giant vegetable spiders), though I'll have to\ndouble check.  These are all very incidental and probably has more to\ndo with my sentimental attachment to the two Aldiss books.\n\nEco: a tip of the hat?\n\nShellac\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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