# Silkicide, and When Does He Emerge? *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Jul 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *11 Jul 2002, 16:17* Stephen Case: you have presented the best & most coherent argument for the "Silk commits suicide theory" I have ever encountered -- others may have expressed it before, but if they did it well enough for me to understand, I must have missed it (which is quite possible; I skim a lot of email when I'm busy). I'm about a third through rereading RTTW now & will watch this carefully. BTW, I'm afraid I have to back down on my support for the theory that Horn leaves the Silk body at the end of OBW. The process of Horn's receding and Silk's emerging may _begin_ there, but it's a gradual process: when Horn and Hide first astrally travel together to Green, Hide remarks that the Narrator looks a lot more like Horn than he does in Blanko. When they travel together to Urth in IGJ, he says that the resemblance is markedly less. they're crawling on me ---