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  "thread": {
    "id": 4101,
    "subject": "Malrubius'n'Silk'n'stuff",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-07-19T07:51:46+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-19T07:51:46+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3698@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Bollen",
        "address": "abollen at internode.on.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-19T07:51:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Malrubius'n'Silk'n'stuff",
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          "text": "Little things:\n\n1. Malrubius sans Triskele appears to Sev once only, I think? The night of\nhis elevation to journeyman, when he's sleeping off his over-indulgence.\nMalrubius pops his head in to check Sev's OK. This is also the first\napparition. Maybe this apparition is not like the others - a \"real\" ghost,\nor a retro-fitted Silk, not an aquastor. This sort of makes sense, in the\ncontext of GW's comments re Short Sun holding an explanation for Malrubius'\nghost. The Malrubius+Triskele apparitions already have an explanation in New\nSun - ie they're aquastors.\n\nI'd like this better if there was some explicit connection in the text\nbetween this apparition & Sev's betrayal of the Order very soon after. But\nit does seem to fit with this interview comment by GW:\n\n[Q] After the action of Short Sun closes, does Silk/Horn take an active\npart, via astral projection, in the events in New Sun? Specifically, as the\n\"ghost\" of Master Malrubius?\n[A] Yes, but not a leading part.\n\nIn fact, it's the only Malrubius apparition which qualifies, IMO. I'd say\nMalrubius-as-aquastor  is a \"leading part\" and it's adequately explained in\nthe New Sun text. (But maybe GW's answer here applies only to the first part\nof the question, which opens up a whole new can of worms.)\n\n2. I still find it hard to think that Silk and Malrubius look alike except\nwhen robed & hooded identically, in the dark. All the descriptions I can\nrecall of Malrubius in life make him seem like a very ancient, decrepit\nthing - folds of skin hanging off his chest, tufts of grey hair etc, and\npresumably he has a face to match. This doesn't sound like our\nmature-yet-studly Silk.\n\nI can back-fill a little story fragment: Sev, still half-drunk, sees a\nfigure robed & hooded like Malrubius, or at least a figure not of the same\nshape as the only other head of the Order he has ever known, Gurloes. On\nsober reflection, he realizes it was actually astral Silk, and the\nrecollection of Silk's charisma etc inspires him (a little late) to Do The\nRight Thing. He doesn't record this, because it would require an explanation\nof Silk. Maybe.\n\n3. If one wanted to explore the possibility that Silk gets inside Sev's\nstory and perhaps changes it away from the one we know, there is the small\nmatter of the discrepancy in the length of time Sev has Triskele, which I\npointed out before. But there's also the Merryn issue. They meet in RTTW,\nwhen Sev fetches her to hang out with Jahlee (why does he do that?). When\nthey meet in Sword, they meet as strangers, to all appearances."
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