Grand Unified Theory

James Wynn · 30 Aug 2010, 01:22 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:22:43 -0500
Subject: (urth) Grand Unified Theory
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> Roy - Yes, she eats, as I pointed out when I was shooting down the
> Hy-is-a-male-chem theory. It was *because* she was so hungry that Auk went
> to the market at the beginning of chapter 3 of EXODUS.[61-63]

As I told you then, I'm inclined to trust Marble's observations above 
the motivations Hy gave to her abductors for sending them on errands.

> The soldier emerged into the street, evoking another awed silence. Revealed,
> Hyacinth chewed and gulped, wiping her hands on her soiled gown. "That was a
> nectarine, I think, and I think I swallowed the pit. I can't remember
> spitting it out. Maybe I chewed it up. Thelx, was it good!" (63)

Does it not bother you just a little bit that we don't actually SEE Hy 
eat that nectarine? (if a nectarine it was)  You don't see that the 
choking and sputtering are potentially an easy distraction while 
disposing of the food? She even has an excuse for there being no pit. 
What is she supposed to be? Part pelican? Who swallows a nectarine whole 
regardless of how hungry they are?

> No one was invited to the wedding. It was done on the spur of the moment.
> Not long after the wedding, Silk and Hy were taken prisoner and put aboard
> the airship. When they got back to Viron, there was a shooting war going on
> and the book ends. We learn very little of what happened between Silk and Hy
> in SS, during their twenty years together. How she got along with her family
> wasn't important enough to mention.

Silk met Hy's "father" at the Juzgado. Hy met her mother in Mainframe. 
Hy's family members are not unimportant to the author. Those meetings 
were significant enough that the author strangely excised them from the 
story. Even if I'm wrong about Hy and Fava, this explanation just 
doesn't wash.

> But I am rather curious how Hy's estranged husband, that dandy captain,
> Serval, fits into this Fava business.

Indeed!

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