Silk corrupted?

Steve McCann · 22 Jan 2009, 23:58 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: steve2mccann at gmail.com (Steve McCann)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:58:15 -0700
Subject: (urth) Silk corrupted?
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I'm not sure if the answers to the original query constitutes a shit storm,
but I guess it will do until one gets here.

But back to the original question, is Wolfe indicating that Silk recognizes
his own corruption in Book 4 of BotLS? (specifically the trip to mainframe?)
Is this what causes his apparent depression? The more I think about it, the
more I like the theme of corruption in the series:

Muccor corrupted by Blood
Silk corrupted by Hyacinth
The councilors corrupted by their mechanical avatars
etc. etc.

Just curious.
-s

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
>
>
>>  Witz, Let's make sure to keep Trey away from this conversation once he
>>> reads
>>> the books.  ;)
>>>
>>> On the other hand, I'm intensely interested so see what he thinks of the
>>> books!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'll be utterly shocked if Trey doesn't see through it pretty clearly.
>> The man has a serious gift for insight. Watching The Black Rider stage
>> play with him was revealing. he grasped levels of symbolism I was utterly
>> blind to.
>> I suppose that's no surprise to you though.
>>
>
> Awww shit.
>
> There are other Tom Waits fans here?
>
> This shouldn't be a surprise to me, should it?  He's right up there in my
> pantheon with Wolfe and Pynchon.
>
> Adam
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