# (no subject) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Jan 2002* > 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. --- ### Michael Straight *02 Jan 2002, 20:38* On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, James Jordan wrote: [regarding "Olmo has fallen" = "Elm has fallen"] >> Ack! What a great catch. This proves the narrator is a ghost! > Ah. Then the narrator is Horn, who is a ghost in Silk's body -- at least > until Silk is resurrected by Severian and takes over, submerging Horn to > "Thecla status." Right? Yes and no. I was sorta joking. Horn's ghost is in there, but I think there's evidence that Silk exerts an increasing influence on the narrator's perspective throughout all three books, which I'll lay out in a post coming soon (I've been re-reading the books during Christmas). -Rostrum ---