some mysterious stuff in Long Sun tick/silk/auk/chenille

Lee Berman · 18 Jan 2011, 01:47 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:47:26 -0500
Subject: (urth) some mysterious stuff in Long Sun tick/silk/auk/chenille
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>Marc Aramini: Also, always confused by Tick...His catachrest speech seems like we should 
>do something with his name.   Also, a tick is in the family arachnida, isn't it?  are there 
>others?  Spider, certainly, 

Tick weave, like tussah and chenille, can be considered a form of silk. I think the name
grouping you are looking for might be found there.

>James Wynn: 2) You don't think the rest of the family of Pas actually looked like 
>that do you? Tentacles for arms and snakes for hair?

I suspect Roy doesn't but actually I do. Scylla appears with snake-arms on a dream trip to Urth. 
She is also shown with normal human bones and with a saint name. This dualistic rendering of her 
suggests to me that some beings on Urth have a dual nature, human and monster.

It may be that some monsters on Urth get their monstrous names because of a monstrous origin. But
there is evidence that some characters start out human but get a monster name as they become
monsters.

Take Baldanders. He seems to have started with a normal human shape. By the time we meet him he
has grown into a small monster and has a monster's name. But he is still basically human in shape.
But, if we could see how he looks after 1000 years of living underwater I suspect he would be so
big and distorted he would no longer be recognizable as human.

Likewise with Scylla. Perhaps a girl with long snake arms was a transitional stage in Cilinia's
transformation to sea monster. The final stage is the gargantuan Great Scylla thing we see pinching
off human-shaped clones at the end of RttW. Took about 1000 years.

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