Silk's origin

David Stockhoff · 13 Oct 2011, 18:51 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:51:55 -0400
Subject: (urth) Silk's origin
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On 10/13/2011 2:14 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> I know what you are saying about wolfean types of statements, I still 
> think that's just talking about adoption in this particular case with 
> the complete lack of physical similarities between Chenille and Silk. 
> (Food for thought: it says she's like a female AUK. How about real 
> misdirection? Horn thinks Silk is the heir of Typhon and plants clues 
> to hint at it when maybe it was always somebody else) 
Now that's interesting. Was Auk the heir of Typhon, but somehow (the 
Outsider?) Silk rose up instead? Could Tussah have been wrong, or else 
right in a more tenuous sense than we are considering (perhaps as 
"patron" rather than "father")?
> I really really really think this statement is non-interpretively 
> saying, "although he is [my son silk] not of my body [from my 
> genitals/ from my genetic material], my son [i bought and paid for him 
> and planted him, Silk's my son, I came up with idea] shall be Calde 
> after me" 
I agree that there are noncorporeal ways Silk could be his son. I don't 
see pure legality as useful, since this adoption evidence would then 
have to be brought forth for the people to see or the judges to examine. 
If Silk's inheritance is extralegal, no such process is necessary.
> Don't mean to argue with you so excessively but I just can't read this 
> statement the way you do. A beast with three horns, sure, I can 
> wiggle, but this time he is saying Silk isn't of his body, though is 
> his son. If he was grown from a rib or cell, he would be of his body.
I agree in general, but there is certainly wiggle room. In a world where 
artificial insemination is commonplace and well understood, yes. Where 
it is not, maybe not. And of course, plenty of couples use sperm from a 
bank to get around the male partner's sterility; these men raise the 
offspring as their children. I think that fits your interpretation. 
Tussah did not raise Silk, but this illustrates the flexibility of the 
concept of "son."


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