Silk's Origin

Lee Berman · 12 Oct 2011, 20:40 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:40:05 -0400
Subject: (urth) Silk's Origin
Message-ID: <SNT123-W35BB14A9729332D82601B9CFE30 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn: When you see that Wolfe is overlaying the Neighbors with Fairie 
>mythology--and since dream-travel is Time-travel, perhaps they are 
>supposed to be the origins of the myth--the idea of the Neighbors as 
>dryads makes perfect sense. "Neighbor" = "Grey Neighbors" = Fair Folk = Fairie. 
>Wolfe is aware of this because he refers to it in "An Evil Guest".

I think this is right. I think David Stockhoff came to a similar conclusion a year
or two ago...

Or perhaps that was a discussion of the Shadow Children from 5HoC. Doesn't matter.
Same author created them both.  And as has been previously discussed, the Shadow Children 
and Inhumi+Neighbors bear a lot of similarity. Shadow Children originating as dark things
curling around the roots of plants sounds rather like parasitic vines. Then there is the
indeterminate numeric count of Shadow Children and Neighbors and the similarity of their 
dream travel. "Faerie" seems like a pretty good unifying concept.

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