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On 30 Mar 2001, Dan Parmenter wrote:
To put it another way, Silk is now Autarch of the Whorl because he has consumed Typhon and knows all the passwords.
Right. And consider, if the "Horn lives" hypothesis is correct, you've got SilkHornPas running around on the old Whorl: the body and mind of a superhero with the "love vibe", the mind of a tyrant and the mind of an expert propagandist. A terrifying thought.
I should also point out, in the part you quote above, I was referring to the downloaded mainframe version of Silk, aka Passilk. I didn't mean to say that the human Silk had consumed Typhon and had the run of the Whorl (although that would make a neater parallel with Severian).
-Rostrum
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.