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At 12:39 PM 11/3/98 -0500, Alex wrote:
I'm not sure Silk is gone--it's
possible, and the airship suggests it, but it seems at least possible that when Horn & co. head back to the Whorl, they will indeed find Patera Silk. But I do agree it's at not unlikely we've seen the last of him.
"Silk was gone. It had to remember that."
(These are the first sentences of Wolfe's "The Night Chough" in the anthology The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams, ed. James O'Barr and Ed Kramer.)
Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
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*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.