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  "thread": {
    "id": 942,
    "subject": "Horn/Silk as inhumu",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-08-16T15:42:14+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-16T15:42:14+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0115@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Purdy",
        "address": "mcp at jhu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-16T15:42:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Horn/Silk as inhumu",
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          "text": "Things I find tempting about the idea:\n*Could key into the secret of the inhumu:  what if giving yourself \nwillingly to the inhumu somehow allows you to take them over?  Not just for \na while, but for good.  They drain you, you die, and are reborn in them.  A \nvery Christian way to defeat an enemy--by helping them.\n*Might make the baffling passage near the end of OBW where Horn and Babbie \nsuffer from identity confusion seem a little clearer--perhaps Horn had to \ndrain some of Babbie's blood, and in doing so temporarily took on his \nconsciousness/frame of reference.  Note problems with this below, though.\n*Resonates with the sudden revelation that someone you never suspected was \ntelling the story at the end of BOTLS.\n*Explains the oft-mentioned lack of appetite in Horn.\n*Explains his baffling tendency to keep adopting inhumi.\n\nProblems:\n*If Horn being an inhumu keys into the Babbie switch, then the timeline is \nknocked completely out of whack.  IIRC, the brief Babbie switch takes place \nbefore Horn arrives at Parjorucu (don't have the book w/me), when the only \ninhumu he's encountered is Krait, and he and Krait are both still alive and \nkicking at this point.  Unless Horn became an inhumu back when one of them \nwas draining Sinew...is that why Krait's blood makes for such a reviving \nmeal in the pit?  Nah, Sinew's his oldest kid, so that couldn't possibly \nwork could it?  Sinew was young when the attack occurred, so Horn and \nNettle probably hadn't had the twins yet.\n*All of the above fails to account for what went on in the body-switch with \nSilk in IGJ.  Unless, as someone was speculating, Silk is an inhumu too at \nthe point Horn jumps in.  That just really seems like a bit too much...\n*Handwriting and hair are both good objections.\n\nAnd yet, and yet... I still find the idea tempting.\nMichael\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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