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  "thread": {
    "id": 991,
    "subject": "changelings",
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    "first": "2000-08-31T01:36:11+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-31T01:36:11+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0011-0203@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-31T01:36:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: changelings",
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          "text": "alga:\n\nHere's another plot-point perhaps for your changeling theory.\n\nFrom p.42 of OBW: \"Have I said how closely Sinew resembled me? Perhaps not?\nThere was something devilish about it.\"\n\nGiven that the Gaonese call Green the Devil's Lantern and the Vironese had\nto borrow the name inhumu from another town, \"because we didn't know they\nexisted in Viron and had no name for them but 'devil,'\" devilish seems a\nrather interesting choice here.\n\nBut I'm also still puzzled by chronology. Are you suggesting that Krait's\nmother, already gravid, makes the long swim through space to Blue, and then\ntakes sup on little Sinew? Because again this makes little sense\nreproductively, especially if the inhumi are oviviparous and must return to\nGreen to lay their brood nests. What would be the point of such a trip if\nshe's already gravid? And since in nearly all oviviparous species, once an\novum has been fertilized, the time between fertilization and the actual\negglaying is very brief, it's hard to believe an inhuma would have the time\nto twice undergo the hazardous journey between planets (let alone the\nenergy).\n\n<And yes, there's plenty of evidence--I'm not going to look up page numbers\njust now--that\nthey can make the trip at conjunction.>\n\nIf and when you have the chance, I'd love to have said pages pointed out to\nme. Because unless there's something Wolfe hasn't told us yet, I will always\nmaintain such notions are strictly the stuff of either older, more lurid,\nscience fiction or the latest issue of the National Inquirer. (\"Vampires\nInvade Stratosphere--Fly Here from the Moon!)\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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