Who's in Oreb

James Wynn · 25 Jun 2005, 10:25 · from 2005-June.txt.gz

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From: thewynns at earthlink.net (James Wynn)
Date: Sat Jun 25 10:25:36 2005
Subject: (urth) Who's in Oreb
Message-ID: <16978306.1119720333858.JavaMail.root at wamui-mouette.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Crush said:
>>[Incidentally, it is at the location I cited that the Rajan denies Pas
>>intended to rule Blue in person.]

Roy answered:
>I'm not sure what the point of that last statement was, but that's not quite
>what is said. I'm not going to quote it all; readers can read it for
>themselves, pages 361-362. In short, Scylla is reported by Silkhorn to have
>believed that "Pas would not have peopled Blue unless he had some way to go
>there himself to rule them." Silkhorn thought she was wrong. 

You are wrong; self-evidently so. That is exactly what the text said.
Why are you quibbling about it? The point of that statement was that the Rajan,
who arguably knows as much or more about Pas than anyone, flatly
denies that Pas felt it personally necessary or desirable to rule the colonies
in person. He implies that he has special insight into this matter that he
could have made available to Scylla if she had asked.
Thus the idea that Pas would not want clones or other hyped-up
embryos ruling in his stead is not true.  Being of a generous nature, I
will quote it for readers:

"She possessed Oreb, as I told you, because she knew he would soon be
brought [to Blue]. She felt sure--she told me this one night--that Pas would
would not have peopled Blue unless he had some way to go there himself
to rule them. 'Lord it' was the phrase she used. She was wrong, as I could
have told her." [361 RTTW]

See? Not that hard. That aside was not meant for you, Roy. Sorry
for the confusion. It was an *aside* regarding something Chris and I
had discussed.

>Eventually,
>Silkhorn says, "Pas has not yet come, perhaps. Or perhaps he has, and Oreb
>simply failed to find the place that Pas found or created." And, later,
>"Then I believe Pas knows that as the years pass we will come to realize how
>much we need him, and bring him." [ . . .] "The same impulse [that sent Horn
>to find Silk] will be applied to Pas in another generation, surely."

All of which says nothing about Pas's *intent*. 

However, once again I'm glad it was you and not me that cited the quote
"Pas has not yet come, perhaps. Or perhaps he has, and Oreb
simply failed to find the place that Pas found or created."

Heh heh heh, or perhaps he has come to Blue *indeed* (cough! Horn).

~ Crush

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