Pike's ghost

James Wynn · 29 Nov 2011, 17:19 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:19:01 -0600
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
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On 11/29/2011 11:09 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> 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.

Obviously, I believe that Wolfe has created a narrator for these stories 
who, while writing in first-person, is analogous to Horn and Nettle 
writing about Silk.

> - 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. 

That's not my interpretation of the final events at all.

> 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?

It is an interesting question as to whether Silver Silk has possessed 
the Rajan.

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