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Sergei SOLOVIEV · 26 Nov 2011, 23:04 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:04:02 +0100
Subject: (urth) chenille
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Read the end of the in teh Green Jungles - the visit to the village of 
Abanja
and the talk with Jahlee later -

Sergei

Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> Marc Aramini wrote (26-11-2011 21:51):
>>
>>
>>   "I see I have confused the rings.
>>>> The one I am wearing is not the one Sewrack gave me,
>>>> although it resembles it closely.
>>>> This is Oreb's ring. It seems the stone changes color
>>> when
>>>> it is worn; it was originally
>>>> much darker, surely."
>>>>
>>
>> Every single attempt to make an assertive claim in Short Sun is 
>> defeated by the narrator: big woman drinking when fed upon causes 
>> Jahlee to resemble chenille, Horn's ring shows up, (two things from 
>> Green make it plausible) later, narrator says he was wrong, might not 
>> be Horn's ring (take away one thing from Green, implausible again).
>>
>> Very frustrating.  Have to choose between ignoring first description 
>> of ring and probably reason for Jahlee being called Chenille or 
>> accepting second reason (different ring) and different reason for 
>> Jahlee being called Chenille (mother fed on Chenille and drunken 
>> woman reinforced it)
>>
>> I think the implied salvation of Chenille is cool and that the second 
>> id of the ring is wrong, but I certainly see why NO ONE can make any 
>> definitive claims about Short Sun, there are a whole lot of 
>> contrdictary symbols and signals.
>
> But again, where is it said that Chenille's children were murdered? I 
> recall a mention by Jahlee that someone told her and other inhumi to 
> do it, but I don't even understand when/where that might have taken 
> place. Unless it was on Blue.
>
> If Oreb's ring is not Seawrack's ring, we must wonder where it came 
> from - Oreb just seeing it shine in the middle of a clearing is 
> unsatifsying.
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