Silk's origin

David Stockhoff · 14 Oct 2011, 00:04 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:04:40 -0400
Subject: (urth) Silk's origin
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On 10/13/2011 6:19 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 10/13/2011 1:14 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>> (Food for thought: it says [Chenille'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)
>
> Well, I've always kind of suspected something like this.
>
> 1) But you still have the "son not of my body". If Auk is the *actual* 
> son and intended heir, then how is he not the son of Tussah's 
> body--unless you interpret the term as I do.
>
> Additionally, I've mentioned before that there is a weird pairing of 
> Silk and Auk in the story at narrative and figurative level. Silk 
> shrives Auk before the robbery of Blood's house. Auk shrives Silk 
> afterwards...insisting he confess all he did without leaving anything 
> out.
>
> On a figurative level, Auk and Silk divide the acts of both 
> Hesphaestus and those of Aristeaus between them. I've often toyed with 
> idea that Silk is a clone of Typhon and Auk/Tussah are clones of 
> Piaton. If Auk was also a clone AND the intended heir that moves the 
> "son not of my body" prophesy into a really twisted area--because Auk 
> is the son of Typhon but only the son of Piaton after they became the 
> same person.
>
> Again, all this only works if you can accept (what I think is 
> inescapable) that Wolfe has sprinkled embryos all over the books and 
> the embryos are clones (many of whom, at least,  clones of Typhon's 
> family and court).
>
> 2) The second problem with Auk as the intended heir is *why didn't he 
> inherit*?  Clearly Tussah expected the gods to accomplish it, so what 
> went wrong?
The Outsider, I'd guess.


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