early-40s?

maa32 · 16 Apr 2002, 04:39 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) early-40s?
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:39:13 -0700
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So sorry about the geritol comment - Silk just comes off in the last two bo=
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as a little bit older than I know he is - mainly that advice he gives those=20
young girls - it seems like it is coming from a much (65+)older man than=20
someone in their early forties. Does this mean Horn is in his late 30s?! An=
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already balding?
Has it only been twenty years since The Book of the Long Sun by the end of=20
Return to the Whorl?!  I guess I forgot how young Horn was when he had=20
children ... Silk was 23 (exactly my age) in The Book of the Long Sun ... s=
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he's only 43? Younger than Jackie Chan?  I am well aware that someone can b=
e=20
exceptionally fit well into their fifties, sixties, or even seventies ... l=
ook=20
at Jhoon Rhee, who won that congressional award for being the most fit old=20
dude a couple years in a row, doing 100+ pushups in a minute and having lik=
e a=20
7-9% body fat in his 70s.  I guess Silk really does seem exceptionally=20
paternal and it is hard for me to rationalize an early 40s Silk. (My own=20
father is 62, and I can't imagine him giving that kind of advice to me - in=20
many ways he seems "younger" than Silk) As far as geritol goes, hey man,=20
supplements are all the rage now. Sorry about the geritol comment, didn't m=
ean=20
to offend.  It just kind of slipped out!

As far as smoking goes in Pandora, when I talked about her mother confronti=
ng=20
her, that was the one scene of smoking I was talking about - but it comes a=
s a=20
surprise, because she doesn't talk about doing it at all throughout the boo=
k,=20
and here her mother is hinting that it might be a habit. Just an odd omissi=
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up to that point, in my mind.

Sorry again, didn't mean to be caustic.  Just a description!  I guess I nev=
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realized how young Silk was - or how young Hyacinth was when she died.

Marc Aramini

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