Pike's ghost

António Pedro Marques · 29 Nov 2011, 17:09 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:09:10 +0000
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
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David Stockhoff wrote (29-11-2011 16:59):
> On 11/29/2011 11:55 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>>>> Why do you believe enlightenment came to Patera Silk in the ball court?
>>> Because the text says so.
>> Which means that Horn and Nettle say so. To what extent may we rely
>> upon their interpretation of this event?
>>
>
> Exactly. However, Silk also narrates it as the Rajan, and it comes up a lot
> in BLS. So we may presume that he told Horn and Nettle.
>
> If he did not, then the end of OBW does not signify that Silk is back,
> because then that must be Horn narrating and making things up.
>
> Aaagh! Infinite improbability loop!

Now for something completely different (really). Who is (are?) the Silk in 
the Rajan?

- Has the original Silk been lost?

- No Silk we meet seems to know anything about the 20 years of Silk's life 
after Horn left the Whorl.

- At the end of RW we simultaneously learn how 'a' Silk may or may have not 
been hiding in Pig, and how 'Silk' accepts he is Silk in New Viron. However, 
the two episodes have no connection between them. The 'Silk in denial' we 
meet, except for the bit aboard the Whorl, is all after the appearance of 
the Silk in Pig. Which Silk is the one in Pig? Does he or does he not get 
into the [then yet to be] Rajan?

- The [then yet to be] Rajan aboard the Whorl before that episode doesn't 
seem to behave any less like Silk than he does afterwards.

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