# Digest whorl.v012.n099 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Apr 2001* > 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. --- ### David Lebling *11 Apr 2001, 11:38* > From: Michael Straight > I thought the climactic revelation was that the narrator is Silk in Silk's > body. That's what I can happen when I post before my first cup of coffee has kicked in. What I should have said is: "The narrator occupies Silk's body, but the climactic revelation that Silk's mind is still there with Horn's falls flat because we've known or at least suspected so since the first volume." or perhaps: "From early on in volume one we've known that the physical body of the narrator is Silk's. We've also known that Silk's personality is in that body as well as Horn's. The final acknowledgement by the narrator that he is in fact Silk falls flat, because _we've_ known or suspected it for a long time." As I said in an earlier post, we're watching Silk repair himself behind the Horn 'front,' and when he's done, Horn isn't necessary to him anymore. Seeing Silk recognize this is a poignant moment, and the best part of the denouement, but we saw it coming all along, so the impact is less. -- Dave Lebling aka vizcacha *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---