Violet = Plutonium?

António Pedro Marques · 14 Nov 2011, 18:39 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:39:42 +0000
Subject: (urth) Violet = Plutonium?
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James Wynn wrote (14-11-2011 18:00):
> On 11/14/2011 7:54 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> aha! And then Violet could stay with Siyuf 2 to do the same for her,
>> although whatever was planned didn't work to control her.
>
> Siyuf 2 going off the rails was another example of a demon imitating a god
> and in some sense becoming that god. This was probably for the same reasons
> that General Mint says that if Spider has spies in her ranks, they will
> still serve her by being forced to the best soldiers she has to protect
> their identity. Siyuf 2 has to act to some degree as Siyuf would. That is
> what the Vironese did not plan for. There are other examples in the novel as
> well. For example, Lemur's chem becomes Lemur. Horn becomes Silk. Quetzel
> dies protecting his flock. Incus becomes prolocutor by telling everyone "he"
> is and acting as if it is so (Quetzal conveniently dies, but then he was
> skipping town anyway).
>
> In a subsequent novels...
> In The Wizard Knight, Abel becomes a knight by acting as if he is one
> already. He doesn't carry a sword because, in his mind, Disiri has already
> given him one -- if he carried another, it would be acknowledging that she
> has not.
> In The Sorcerer's House, Bax begins caring for the house has if it is his
> own. This is his plan to live there as if it is his own. Of course, he soon
> inherits it.
> In the Book of the Short Sun, a Neighbor seeks to become Horn by devoting
> himself to his mission. (I'm not looking for an argument. It's just that I'm
> quite sure this is the case.)

"And if one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is"

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