Calde of the Long Sun

David Stockhoff15 Jan 2009, 22:19

I don't have a firm opinion on this, but I agree that the below is a very Typhon-like (assuming Pas is Typhon) purpose. Of course, there could have been many Silks to serve several purposes, and I assume there were indeed many Silks (or twins of Silk if not exact clones). And I'll bet someone here can point to a few of them!

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------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:10:40 -0800 From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Calde of the Long Sun and Learning to Read Wolfe To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Message-ID: <1f7617370901141110r2c2614fdi778a708f4a4384df at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Paul B <pb.stuff at gmail.com> wrote:

I suppose Kypris could have had it written in Pas' absence, sure. What do you mean regarding his parentage? He was a special embryo bought by Tussah for his own purpose.

There is a strong belief among many on this list that the embryo that grows up to be Silk was intended by Pas to be his own body when the Whorl reached its destination. -- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant ----- http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer http://www.danehyoakes.com I once absend-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. -- T. Pratchett ------------------------------

Paul B16 Jan 2009, 01:53

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Knowing Typhon (booby-trapped giant golden ring on a giant mountain carved in his likeness) he'd keep a close watch on the one single embryo his digital facsimile was intended to inhabit someday, placing it under tighter security than most of the stuff in Mainframe. Typhon seems like a pretty vain guy in BotNS. Those who would suggest that Silk was his intended body should figure out a way to account for how this embryo, likely the most treasured object on the Whorl, fell into the grubby hands of the cargo. Conversely, the embryos in the landers also seem to possess special powers (Mucor, Pig, Mora) at least in some cases, but aren't particularly well guarded. As for the existence of other physical Silks, that seems implausible given the details of Horn's search for one in Short Sun. Paul

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote: I don't have a firm opinion on this, but I agree that the below is a very Typhon-like (assuming Pas is Typhon) purpose. Of course, there could have been many Silks to serve several purposes, and I assume there were indeed many Silks (or twins of Silk if not exact clones). And I'll bet someone here can point to a few of them!

John Watkins16 Jan 2009, 03:04

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The Plan gets subverted on several occasions, and there are any number of actors rhat might want to avoid a physical Pas.

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On 1/15/09, Paul B <pb.stuff at gmail.com> wrote: Knowing Typhon (booby-trapped giant golden ring on a giant mountain carved in his likeness) he'd keep a close watch on the one single embryo his digital facsimile was intended to inhabit someday, placing it under tighter security than most of the stuff in Mainframe. Typhon seems like a pretty vain guy in BotNS. Those who would suggest that Silk was his intended body should figure out a way to account for how this embryo, likely the most treasured object on the Whorl, fell into the grubby hands of the cargo. Conversely, the embryos in the landers also seem to possess special powers (Mucor, Pig, Mora) at least in some cases, but aren't particularly well guarded. As for the existence of other physical Silks, that seems implausible given the details of Horn's search for one in Short Sun. Paul On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes16 Jan 2009, 16:23

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Paul B <pb.stuff at gmail.com> wrote: Those who would suggest that Silk was his intended body should figure out a way to account for how this embryo, likely the most treasured object on the Whorl, fell into the grubby hands of the cargo.

Pas was dead: to begin with. He wouldn't have put anyone else in charge of That Embryo, now would he?

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant ----- http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer http://www.danehyoakes.com I once absend-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. -- T. Pratchett

Paul B16 Jan 2009, 17:35

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Well, sure, but he was also dead in the case of the (likely less important) giant golden ring in BotNS. He sure prevented people from screwing with that one pretty good despite that handicap, didn't he? Paul

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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>wrote: Pas was dead: to begin with. He wouldn't have put anyone else in charge of That Embryo, now would he? -- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant ----- http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer http://www.danehyoakes.com I once absend-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. -- T. Pratchett _______________________________________________

David Stockhoff16 Jan 2009, 18:16

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Indeed. Or a physical Typhon.

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------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:04:45 -0500 From: John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Calde of the Long Sun To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> Message-ID: <93d4039f0901151904w6e553a92s7c22f31e0d23d024 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The Plan gets subverted on several occasions, and there are any number of actors rhat might want to avoid a physical Pas. ------------------------------

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