mora and hyacinth

Gerry Quinn · 30 Dec 2010, 18:21 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:21:00 -0000
Subject: (urth) mora and hyacinth
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From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
>>Antonio Pedro Marques: Just to clear it up: he has only one eye because he 
>>gave the other one to
>>Pig. We learn of the giving-his-eye episode in RttW, but it happened 
>>before
>>he started writing iGJ. Unless I'm missing something.
>
> Well, from my view SilkHorn only has one eye because Silk's body lost one. 
> I mean heck, I look
> on the cover of IGJ and there is Silk with an eyepatch. If I understand 
> correctly, he later
> returns to the Whorl and gives an eye to Pig at the end. Leaving him with 
> none.

Wolfe didn't paint the cover.  Granted the covers are pretty literal, but I 
don't think we can take the artist's rendition as tremendously 
authoritative.  (Also, is Horn described as walking through Green's jungles 
side by side with a Neighbour?  I don't recall such an incident.  And when 
did Horn qua Horn ever lose an eye?)

The artist is conflating Silk and Horn at different periods.  The picture is 
clearly of Green, as we can see Blue in the sky - but Silk was never on 
Green.

- Gerry Quinn

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