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Hey Roy, that was the big thing I was asking before: Three years have passed for the narrator, but only two have passed for the people on Blue ( I think). If we want to, we can see this as a true distortion of time: Horn is dying about a year after he leaves home on Green, then he is sent back a year in the past into Silk's body, so that he is in two places at once - in other words, Silk was already in trouble, and maybe already Horn, when Horn asked Mucor to find him, possibly making her appearance in Return to the Whorl at the Same time that she looked for Silk in On Blue's Waters, and giving us ample evidence of time travel. The big huge gaping problem with this theory is: how long has it been for Sinew? probably three years, right? If we can find that it has only been two for Sinew, this is a pretty neat distortion. Otherwise, I can't even begin to explain it, but I've commented on it before. It really blew my mind. Two years? Three years? And everybody kept saying three years. You see what I'm talking about? Marc Aramini

Date: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:21 AM

Three years have passed for the narrator, but only two have passed for the people on Blue ( I think). If we want to, we can see this as a true distortion of time: Horn is dying about a year after he leaves home on Green, then he is sent back a year in the past into Silk's body, so that he is in two places at once - in other words, Silk was already in trouble, and maybe already Horn, when Horn asked Mucor to find him, possibly making her appearance in Return to the Whorl at the Same time that she looked for Silk in On Blue's Waters, and giving us ample evidence of time travel.<< No, that won't work. Hyacinth was still alive when Horn asked Mucor to find Silk. (OBW, 95) She was dead when Mucor made her visit to Blood's ruined house in RTTW. Also, it is the narrator who says that he had been gone almost two years in RTTW, as I noted earlier. Silkhorn elsewhere (OBW, 293) muddies the water by saying that he told Seawrack that if he wasn't back with the lander to Pajarocu within a month to assume he was dead, and that: "It has been nearly two years now, I believe. More, perhaps." -Roy