Pig's eye

Roy C. Lackey · 30 Nov 2011, 17:35 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:35:20 -0600
Subject: (urth) Pig's eye
Message-ID: <008601ccaf86$71e95fa0$33d24a0c@rclackey>

Marc Aramini write:
> I am almost certain the reason for the conclusion of Short
> Sun being the sacrifice of the eye (in flash back anyway) is
> simply that THAT is the moment when Silk is
> "saved"/rebooted. He pretty much left the
> building/lost his will to live when Hy died, and that reboot
> is an integral way to the manner I read the text: most of
> the Rajan post OBW is, in my opinion, dominated by the
> Silver Silk personality that rode in Pig. I guess I
> could be wrong, but I think that is key to Silk's
> reconstitution, re-enacting the reconstitution of Pas.

Silkhorn didn't need Pig to be able to see in order to "reboot" Silver Silk
into Silkhorn. A glass or Sacred Window was needed to import or export a
god, and Silkhorn had already been exposed to the Sacred Window in the Grand
Manteion before the eye operation. (That is when and how a bit of Scylla got
into Oreb, when Silk assisted with the sacrifices at the Grand Manteion on
the same day that he was found by Hari Mau.)

Rather, Silver Silk in Pig was trapped there by Pig's blindness. Silkhorn
confronted the Silver Silk in Pig in Hy's old room in the ruins of Blood's
villa, saying: "You're not with her now, I realize. As long as Pig is blind,
you can't go back to her." Silver Silk answered, "Correct. Though I would
try to have his sight restored in any case, just as you yourself are making
a praiseworthy effort to restore Maytera's." (RTTW, 174) And there was a
working glass in Pig's recovery room for Silver Silk to use in order to
reintegrate with his greater self in Mainframe.

-Roy

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