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  "thread": {
    "id": 953,
    "subject": "Inhumi secret and horn/silk/inhumi related?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-08-19T03:25:31+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-19T03:25:31+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0128@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lomax",
        "address": "dlomax at idirect.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-19T03:25:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Inhumi secret and horn/silk/inhumi related?",
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          "text": "All,\n\nWhat about this?  The inhumi secret could be that, since they take some\nof the essence of the person with the blood, the best thing to defeat\nthem is to actually offer one's blood to them.  That way, since one has\nmade a generous offer and gift, a giving of the self, perhaps the\ninhuma/u would be unable to kill one.  In fact, if one offered enough of\noneself, could not one transfer one's whole essence to the inhumu?\nRemember that when Horn was transported, he was told that he was being\ntransported to a body whose spirit was dying.  Could it be somehow that\nSilk discovered the inhumi secret and gave himself entirely over to an\ninhumu, so that his entire essence ended up in the inhumu body?  COuld\nit then be that Silk's essence was dying in the inhumu body and that\nHorn's soul was needed to bolster it?\n\nThe thing is, we're all accustomed by now to the fact that often in\nWolfe's books, things are neither entirely one way or entirely the\nother.  Would this solution allow the Horn/Silk inhumu to be something\nother than a regular inhumu?  Might we call the new thing a New Inhumu,\none in which the essences of human and inhumu are equally mixed, one\nwhich might be palatable to Oreb and be capable of using tools?\n\nI'm not much more satisfied with this explanation of things than I was\nwith the straight \"maybe he's an inhumu\" thing.  But it's fun to think\nabout.\n\nAnyone?  Anyone?  Bueller?\n\nDavid Lomax\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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