Silk's origin

David Stockhoff · 12 Oct 2011, 19:56 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:56:48 -0400
Subject: (urth) Silk's origin
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On 10/12/2011 3:48 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>> On 10/12/2011 10:32 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>
>> Let's put this to James. James, does an engineered-genes-insertion 
>> link between Typhon and Silk work for your theory? After all, with 
>> some wiggle room it makes them brothers, or closer than brothers. And 
>> yet they will be as different as Silk and Mucor.
>
> Well, not really.
>
> There's no exposition in the book that ties the genes for leadership 
> to height or blonde hair.
That's not something I suggested. I was referring to your puzzle of 
"brothers" and "sisters."
>
> Additionally, the references tying Silk to Typhon strike me as very 
> personal. Including Horn's speech in OBW about how if Pas is a god on 
> the Whorl then he can come and be a god on Blue. I think that is an 
> autorial reference to Silk. The best dodge I can come up with is that 
> Silk was carrying a piece of Pas in his head since before Tussah's 
> assassination. 
If Silk is carrying genes from Typhon and Typhon is Pas, does that help?
> But even that is too many degrees of separation for me. For example, 
> why could only Silk be used as a donor to repatch Pas after his 
> resurrection, and why did it require going all the way to the 
> Mainframe? If it is only that he was carrying part of the god in his 
> head, then he only needed to stand in front of a Sacred Window. And I 
> still want him to be a son of Typhon somehow to have a hope of 
> explaining the two parents Silk meets on the Aureate Path. 
That's what I mean. In what sense must Silk be a son of Typhon---given 
the "son not son" pattern of the Romans you have pointed to: legal? No. 
Filial? No. Why not genetic?
> It's clear that Wolfe has all this carefully worked out. I just can't 
> figure out how he got there.
>
> J.


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