RttW discrepancy?

Roy C. Lackey · 27 Oct 2008, 05:35 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:35:22 -0600
Subject: (urth) RttW discrepancy?
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Matthew Groves wrote:
> There is a possible discrepancy between HornSilk's description of his
> arrival in the Whorl in In Green's Jungles, and that by Hoof, Daisy, Hide,
> and Vadsig at the beginning of Return to the Whorl. In HornSilk's version,
> as he leaves the house, "It was a little after midday then, as well as I
> could judge from the narrowing line of the Long Sun." (*IGJ* 127) In Hoof
et
> al., "He backed away from the knife and stumbled through the open door
into
> the darkest night ever known." (*RttW* 13-14)  Is this merely a
compression
> of events by Hoof et al.?

The "darkest night ever known" had nothing to do with the Long Sun. It was
the dark night of Silk's soul.

-Roy

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