Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

James Wynn · 18 Nov 2011, 00:53 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:53:57 -0600
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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On 11/17/2011 6:32 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> No dia 18/11/2011, ?s 00:21, James Wynn<crushtv at gmail.com>  escreveu:
>
>> Since I believe that chem personalities are made from mindwiped scans of actual people, I'm going to posit that Sand is made from a scan of Typhon. And that that is why Silk had a disjointed epiphany that he and Sand were in some way brothers.
> Well, well, you may be on to something here. Their discourse is not altogether dissimilar.
> But in that case the only connection of Silk to Typhon should be biological. I see very little in common in their personalities (as distinct from their abilities) (though Silk knows he's not Good, and yet we get no one better.)

How do we know that Pas is not improved in some way? Pas is certainly 
spoken of in more appealing terms in SS than in LS. But think what Silk 
must provide are the more basic physically-oriented mental processes 
that need an "source" doner to work. This assumes that Wolfe was putting 
so much thought into the hard SF of the story rather than the Fantasy 
and literary elements of the tale.

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