# various *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Jul 2003* > 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. --- ### Ken Burstall *20 Jul 2003, 04:51* Apologies in advance in case my theories have already been discussed and demolished, although I haven't seen them in the archives. I doubt that Silk=Malrubius. I think that the real reason for Silk/Horn meeting with Severian is, firstly, to provide a sort of Chapter Zero for tBotNS, an explanation for why Severian should have this itch to be good when his li Another reason is how morally symmetrical it makes the book sequence - Severian triumphs over possibly the worst upbringing devisable, Silk over a genetic inheritance from hell (if you accept that Silk is a clone of Typhon). Just some thoughts We’ve been good. We deserve a Van de Graaf Generator. And a Tesla Coil. (Teresa Neilsen-Hayden) _______________________________________________ Express Yourself - Share Your Mood in Emails! Visit www.SmileyCentral.com - the happiest place on the Web. ---