Silk corrupted?

Son of Witz · 22 Jan 2009, 19:21 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:21:16 +0000
Subject: (urth) Silk corrupted?
Message-ID: <W51928552290421232652076@webmail53>

I'm not sure about corrupted.
from the perspective of Long Sun only, I assumed he either thought he could save her and more, and got waylaid, or, symbolically that he copped out of the Exodus he would have lead and instead succumbed to worldly trappings of the false creation.
I'll probably have to amend that as I read Short Sun.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve McCann [mailto:steve2mccann at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:05 AM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: (urth) Silk corrupted?
>
>The recent discussion of Silk (as translated by Horn) reminds me of a
>question I've always had about book 4 of the Long Sun. As preface to the
>question, I was intrigued by Wolfe's talking about Severian being an aspect
>of the Outsider, but not a Christ as much as a Christian (Christ being a man
>not corrupted.) Was Silk currupted by Typhon?
>
>One thing that's always bothered me is in the trip to Mainframe, Horn's
>retelling of Silk seems to grow more and more distant until at the end of
>the book I'm not really sure what Silk is thinking from the narrative.
>Specifically why does Silk nearly throw himself from the blimp? I've always
>thought that at Mainframe Silk came to realize the presence of Typhon in
>him, and that makes him suicidal. Not to include a spoiler from the short
>sun series, but the trip to mainframe seems to be a turning point for Silk
>which eventually leads him to being the hollowed out shell of the BotSS. Am
>I off base with this?
>-s
>

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