Silk or Horn?

Lee Berman · 03 Sep 2013, 15:30 · from 2013-September.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:30:10 -0400
Subject: (urth) Silk or Horn?
Message-ID: <BLU175-W26CC389E7F9785977D6ABFCF310 at phx.gbl>

>Antonio Pedro Marques: Silk_'s suicide attempts seem to me quite in 
>line with all the rest of _Silk_'s behaviour towards Hyacinth - that person 
>with a central role in the events, who we know next to nothing about.

Thanks for mentioning that Antonio. On first reading of Silk's suicide, it
didn't seem to fit what we knew of Silk. His belief in the omnipresent OUtsider 
was so deep and unswerving, how could he ever abandon life and hope?

My eventual interpretation was that the passion between such opposite types as
Silk and Hyacinth was tantamount to a drug or chemical addiction. Perhaps
we are meant to understand that love/passion and other chemical addictions and 
withdrawl from them can be so powerful they can cause despair and even suicide 
in the most deeply pious and faithful of spiritual believers.

So how does SilkHorn apparently survive his very similar addiction to Seawrack?
For me the message is that Horn's grounding in life and practicality endowed him
with a survival instinct that the deeply spiritual Silk lacked.

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