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  "thread": {
    "id": 982,
    "subject": "Oh, no, not a Sex Secret! (pronoun problem)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-08-27T22:29:07+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-27T22:29:07+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0190@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "akt",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-27T22:29:07+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Oh, no, not a Sex Secret! (pronoun problem)",
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          "text": "I can't believe I'm becoming a Secret sharer in any way. But please have\na look at IGJ 81-83. This is the scene where the Secret is actually\nimparted and Horn does understand it \"and what happened almost twenty\nyears ago;\" (Krait being about 20, or 21 I'd say). Horn has vision of\n\"wicked women\" and \"brutal giants\" and believes he is sharing Krait's\nvision as a gift from the Outsider \"to share Krait's thoughts, and to\nsee Green's jungle as Krait himself did.\"\n\n\"To see it as our blood allowed him to see it.\"\n\nIn the next paragraph he says \"You feared that jungle, I know; so did I\nat times.\" I think the \"you\" is Sinew. But what on earth is \"our\" as in\nblood?  Yours and mine, Sinew because I'm your dad? Yours and mine,\nKrait, because you just took a nibble from me and I'm sort of your dad\ntoo? Yours and mine, Outsider? The blood that you, Sinew, and Krait\nshare (re his mother), part of which I contributed genetically (this is\nridiculous). It can't possibly be sexual, can it?  Twenty years ago? How\nthe hell do they reproduce? Those women and \"brutal giants\" do seem like\npart of a primitive fertility rite.\n\nI hope I'm not awarded the dreaded Borski prize for this.\n\n-alga\n\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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