{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/933",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
  },
  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 933,
    "subject": "Typhon's Home: Pas as Neighbor",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-08-11T21:08:53+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-11T21:08:53+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0098@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-11T21:08:53+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Typhon's Home: Pas as Neighbor",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I've always wondered why Typhon targeted the Blue-Green system as the\nWhorl's ultimate destination. (This assumes the ship did not end up there by\naccident or miscalculation.)\n\nSpeculation: could this be because he himself actually hails from\nBlue-Green? \"Typhon,\" after all, is a mythic name, and according to Wolfe's\nnomenclatural stratagem, this should make him an alien--so perhaps his\nlaunching of the Whorl has merely been his way of returning home--one\ngrandiose beyond all believing, and not simply as some expatriate, or even a\nlegendary conqueror of various galactic realms, but as a god. Typhon has\nalso previously told Severian that \"I was not born as I am, or born at all,\nas you meant it,\" which to me implies a possible exogenetic origin; and both\nTyphon and the Neighbors bear doubled body parts (heads vs. limbs), so\nthere's a relational twinship between the two. And what better army to\nfinally eradicate the dreaded inhumi than one consisting of chems and\ntaluses?\n\nThis might also explain the alliance between the Neighbors and the Mother\n(since it appears to be the former that supplies the magic ring Seawrack\ngives Horn). If she's truly Scylla, as I've proposed, they're not so much\naiding and abetting an alien intruder (I refuse to call her a wetback), but\none of their own native kin (if perhaps deracinated; there's evidence she's\nresumed her old sea monster form if we're to believe Seawrack's \"She's\nanother shape, very big\" and \"She doesn't look like a woman unless she makes\npart of herself a woman.\" OBW, 244).\n\nPossibly, if we could just make out a Neighbor's facial features, this might\nprovide a clue? (Or do the VP look like Horn?)\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}