sev/silk contrast The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 Nov 2008 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5233 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. ============================================================================== Marc Aramini — 22 Nov 2008, 01:51 I believe Craig mentioned we were meant to contrast Sev and Silk in a meaningful fashion and I agree, yet at times it is disturbing to do so. Silk is the better man by modern standards - sexually and behaviorally he is certainly more in tune with our modern definitions of morality. However, Severian is able to spare his enemies in an astonishing way (Agia and others escape death) while Silk kicks Jahlee to death in wrath as one of his last recorded actions (certainly NOT Horn by then). This is problematic to some degree but I would certainly maintain Silk is still the better man. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Watkins — 22 Nov 2008, 02:01 in reply to Marc Aramini I think Silk's guilt was playing out in that scene. He'd already done enough to Horn's family, he couldn't let Jahlee do more. Doesn't make it ok, of course. > On 11/21/08, Marc Aramini wrote: > I believe Craig mentioned we were meant to contrast Sev and Silk in a > meaningful fashion and I agree, yet at times it is disturbing to do so. > Silk is the better man by modern standards - sexually and behaviorally he is > certainly more in tune with our modern definitions of morality. However, > Severian is able to spare his enemies in an astonishing way (Agia and others > escape death) while Silk kicks Jahlee to death in wrath as one of his last > recorded actions (certainly NOT Horn by then). This is problematic to some > degree but I would certainly maintain Silk is still the better man. > > > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------