<<From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
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On 30 Mar 2001, Dan Parmenter wrote:
"In one sense he wasn't there, either. In another he is here
with us at this moment, because I am."
If it weren't for the passage you quote, I would have said there is no Pas in the Narrator. Pig probably has some Pas because he's been posessed by the Mainframe version of Silk, which is Passilk. But the the human Silk was never posessed by Pas that we know of, so why would the Narrator have any Pas in him?>>
I take the passage quoted by Dan Parmenter oppositely.
It means that because "Pas" on the Whorl is now "Passilk", having Silk present means that Pas is also present, because Pas is at least partly Silk now.
-- Dave Lebling
aka vizcacha
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.