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  "thread": {
    "id": 967,
    "subject": "Horn as Inhumi and Silk as suicide?",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-08-22T14:26:36+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-22T14:26:36+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0154@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roberson, John",
        "address": "robersonj at bek.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-22T14:26:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Horn as Inhumi and Silk as suicide?",
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          "text": "Greetings!  Hope this reaches everyone. \n\n1. The description of Silk circulated by Horn was from the postscript to\nTBOLS copies circulated by Horn and Nettle after they landed on Blue, not by\nthe Rajan of Gaon Horn/Silk amalgam who should know, if nothing else, where\nSilk's body is.\n\n2. Unless Horn as TBOLS narrator was so hero-worshipful that he's another\nunreliable Wolfean narrator, I don't think suicide out of despondency is an\noption for someone of the character of Silk, given that he rejected it on\nthe airship.  But using himself as a funeral sacrifice for Hy would be in\ncharacter.  (Then again, maybe Wolfe is saying that Silk was too idealistic\nand fooled-by-young-love/lust to be the Beautiful Person and only after\nmerging with the more realistic, selfish, imperfect Horn could he/them\nbecome what Horn believed him to be initially through the rose-tinted\nglasses of his youth.  Either that, or I'm full of it.)\n\n3. Just noticed that (forgot the page no) Jahlee, when posing as Incanto's\nhousekeeper, is mentioned as snuffling around and coughing like Incanto,\nafter he's slept in her house for some time. I wonder if she's been having a\nmidnight snack of Incanto on rye?  This would explain Incanto's lack of\nappetite if the identity-fluid transfer from victim to inhumu works both\nways, as some have supposed.  This would be more palatable to me than\nIncanto actually being an inhumu...\n\n4. With regard to the Horn-Babbie identity confusion at the end of OBW, I\ninitially thought this was just a psychic bonding caused by Horn's\nNeighbor-granted psychic abilities asserting themselves (like suddenly being\na perfect shot and picking his way through dense foliage, etc), perhaps\ncaused by the fact that I believe Mucor frequently possessed Babbie on their\njourney and he was linking with her/it.  She does tend to pop up whenever he\nexercizes his astral projection ability.  Maybe not, though...\n\nWhat do you wiser heads think?\n\nStill in the schola, nowhere close to Patera-hood,\n\nRam    \n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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