Astral travel in time

nastler · 07 Apr 2006, 06:42 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: nastler at yahoo.dk (nastler)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:42:53 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: (urth) Astral travel in time
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Couldn't Silkhorns power here be described as changing
the memory of an event (inserting a new memory)
through story-telling, rather than to really change
the past? Wouldn't this have the same (desired)
effect? To alter the subjects future?

This would mean the past stays the past, now is now,
and the future (or one version of it) is yet
unwritten, but is influenced by our perception of (not
the reality of) past events. This in no way explains
the (instant) AT though. Unless SH is attempting to
use his power on us (readers of SS) to alter our
memory of what happened ten books ago.

And Dan, if SH is just a puppet then the only fun I
could have reading about him would be to find the
strings. These books have lots of strings, and not
many of then go up to Heaven.

nastler

--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> skrev:

> > To accord Silkhorn the ability to change the
> > past, as Andrew has already suggested, opens up a
> Pandora's box that,
> > once opened, not only can't be closed again, but
> potentially lets out more
> > possibilities than the box could ever have held to
> begin with. Where does
> > Silkhorn's power to change the past come from, and
> where does it stop?
> 
> Okay, to begin with, it probably isn't "his" power,
> but that of the
> Outsider, Whom he serves. I doubt he even knows he
> does it.(The
> Narrator is brain-numbingly good at not knowing
> stuff about himself:
> not so much an unreliable narrator as an unreliable
> observer.)
> 
> > Why shouldn't he go back in the past to change any
> number of
> > outcomes he didn't like, things that were a lot
> more important to him
> > and the other humans who came to the Blue-Green
> system than the
> > particular inhuma sitting at the table?
> 
> I have no doubt that he would if he (knew he) could.
> However, this
> is not the Outsider's focus. The Outsider (Who is
> the Christian God)
> is interested in individuals, souls, not mass
> movements.
> 
> 
> > I can't explain the appearance of the Silk-like
> and Oreb-like figures in the
> > old woman's story, but if Silkhorn traveled back
> in time to spook somebody,
> > he not only did it off-stage, he exercised his
> power, in my opinion, rather
> > trivially and arbitrarily.
> 
> If he did it of his own volition - yes. If the
> Outsider/Increate/God did,
> however, then it has some extremely important
> meaning in the lives
> of the participants -- to which the Narrator is
> probably not privy.
> 
> --Dan'l
> 
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> fear him.
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