Pig's eye

Marc Aramini · 30 Nov 2011, 17:38 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:38:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Pig's eye
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--- On Wed, 11/30/11, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:

> From: Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net>
> Subject: (urth) Pig's eye
> To: "urth" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 9:35 AM
> 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

So was Silver Silk still in mainframe while he was trapped in Pig?  I need to look it over again.  I know he was trapped in Pig ... but is that a fragment or "all" of him?  The copying/deletion gets a bit onerous.

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