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  "thread": {
    "id": 50,
    "subject": "Quetzal at Silk's death",
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    "first": "1997-01-28T10:03:43+00:00",
    "last": "1997-01-28T10:03:43+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0085@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CoxRathvon",
        "address": "coxrathvon at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-28T10:03:43+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Quetzal at Silk's death",
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          "text": "Fellow readers: This is the first mailing list to which I've subscribed, and\nI must say I enjoy reading every contribution.  It really helps to share our\nthoughts, especially when dealing with a writer as complex and elusive as\nWolfe.\n\nMy question this time pertains to Quetzal's presence at Silk's apparent death\nin \"Calde of the Long Sun.\"  As you may recall, Silk's floater is shot down;\nit lands in the prisoners' pit and Silk is temporarily buried.  During his\nunconsciousness, Silk has a vision (for reasons I don't fully fathom, though\nit seems to be the Outsider's work) of his parents--all *four* parents,\nincluding his two biological progenitors (the father \"tall and blue-eyed\"),\nhis beloved adoptive mother, and Calde Tussah who arranged for Silk to be\ndeveloped from a frozen embryo (quite possibly an embryo engineered with\nspecial powers).\n\n   Now, when Silk awakes, he is alone with Quetzal and \"pain stab(s) his\nneck.\"  Hmm.  Silk also has \"aches\" in his head, arms, legs, and chest; but\nWolfe has a semicolon separating these \"aches\" from the pain that \"stabs\" in\nSilk's neck.  What's Wolfe up to here?  Does Quetzal have some kind of\nhealing power that's a reverse of his blood-sucking lethality?  Could he have\ninjected blood, fluid, or some alien curative substance *into* Silk?  Or am I\nnuts?\n\n   The mystery continues, even for Silk.  Quetzal tells him (p. 327) \"We\nthought you were dead.\"  And he adds that Auk and Chenille \"promised to\nreturn for your body.\"  But later (p. 350), when Silk meets Chenille at\nBlood's villa, Chenille says, \"We knew you were alive.  His Cognizance said\nthere was a pulse.\"\nThis makes Silk ponder (while the others are discussing Quetzal), and I quote\nfrom p. 350:\n\n   Privately, Silk was trying to reconcile Quetzal's telling Chenille that\nhe, Silk, was alive with his saying that they had thought him dead.  He had\nlied in one or the other, but why?\n   \"Bad thing!\" Oreb told everyone.\n\n   Now, does anyone have a clear insight into this?  To review, Silk gets\nburied and suffocated, has a vision from the Outsider, wakes with a painful\nneck in Quetzal's presence, and is told by Quetzal that he was thought dead,\nonly to hear from Chenille that he was *not* thought dead.  I've been\nthinking hard about Quetzal's motives as I re-re-read the four books, but I'm\nmystified about this incident.  \n\n--Henry Rathvon\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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