Silk/Horn in the Matachin Tower

Gerry Quinn · 06 Feb 2013, 14:07 · from 2013-February.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:07:21 -0000
Subject: (urth) Silk/Horn in the Matachin Tower
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From: Antonin Scriabin 

> Is there indication in The Book of the New Sun that any of the clients at the 
> time of Severian's childhood might in fact be Silk/Horn?  If Wolfe had the 
> vision and plan for the "Solar Cycle" in this depth back while writing TBONS, 
> that would be most impressive.

Gurloes used to ?talk to? (or taunt, who knows) the mad clients in the lowest floor.  But I don?t recall any mention of Severian ever encountering several clients held together, and Silk/Horn was always with a group.
I don?t believe any such thesis is feasible.  Typhon would have had to make a reference ? albeit perhaps oblique - to launching the Whorl.  Anything else would be, in Wolfe?s terms, ?lame? ? just as he said it would have been lame not to have Silk/Horn visit Severian. 

- Gerry Quinn  

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