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  "thread": {
    "id": 937,
    "subject": "Typhoon's Duality",
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    "first": "2000-08-15T20:25:11+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-15T20:25:11+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0102@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Endymion9",
        "address": "endymion9 at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-15T20:25:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Typhoon's Duality",
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          "text": "Seth Lombardi wrote:\n\n< Okay, if Typhon was Neighbor-Spawned or related it _would_ help finally\n< explain the whole Why The Whorl Anyway question, but Typhon was such a\n< seemingly sinister and human critter that I have a hard time buying it.\nHis\n< duality is parasitic and completely antithetical to both the Outsider and\n(I\n< think - I've only read OBW) the semi-enlightened noble savage-ness of the\n< Neighbors. Then again, the Neighbors ain't exactly what I'd call easy to\n< relate to, so perhaps Typhon was some sort of proto-neighbor, from back\nwhen\n< they were a bit more barbaric. On the other hand, I've always liked the\nway\n< Wolfe makes most evil human created - even we seeded Erebus and such.\n\n\nOr could Typhoon be a similar aberration to Asimov's \"Mule\"?  Not typical of\nany of the other Neighbors?\n\n\nDennis/Endy\nhttp://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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