Drunken Jahlee

don doggett · 07 Aug 2005, 19:01 · from 2005-August.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Sun Aug  7 19:01:53 2005
Subject: (urth) Drunken Jahlee
In-Reply-To: <001301c59b1d$6d2ab740$183ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>
Message-ID: <20050808020150.35125.qmail at web32403.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
> 
> Iirc, Chenille was drunk only once in the seven
> volumes. That was when she
> and Silk went to Lake Limna. They had separated,
> with Silk going out to the
> shrine. It was Auk who later found her drunk. Afaik,
> Silk never saw or heard
> her drunk.

This brings up an important point that bears
repeating:  Nothing in any of these books can be 100%
reliably attributed to Silk.  Horn and Nettle wrote
the BotLS,  there's no guarantee that Silk's spirit is
in the narrator's body in SS and the last part of SS
is written by what's her name that's married to Hoof
or Hide.  The only reason we can even surmise Silk was
a "real" person is that there are people alive in the
narrative who claim to have known him.  If it weren't
so brilliant a device it'd be damned annoying.

Don

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