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Stephen Case · 11 Jul 2002, 04:55 · from urth-v0207.mbox · original

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From: "Stephen Case" <scase at olivet.edu>
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest from  urth at urth.net
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 23:55:20 -0500
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If Silk wasn't trying to commit suicide over Hyacinth's casket, then what =
=3D
is the significance of Silk/Horn and Remora's conversation about death and =
=3D
suicide at the end of the series?  I thought the reason that kept Silk =3D
retreated into the Horn persona through most of the books was that he =3D
couldn't face the fact of himself committing suicide.  When he finally =3D
did, he emerged.  Didn't the Neighbors say something when Horn was dying =
=3D
about "transfering him into a healthy body who's soul was dying" or words =
=3D
to that effect?  I took this to mean that Silk's body was relatively =3D
healthy-- he hadn't gone far enough to truly be in danger of death-- but =
=3D
that his soul was dying, i.e. he had decided to end it all, made the =3D
decision to quit living, given up.  If Wolfe is a Christian, than this is =
=3D
one of the greatest moral crimes a man can commit.  If Silk is a servant =
=3D
of the Outsider, the same is true, and the fact that he committed it, fell =
=3D
so far, is why he stayed hidden in Horn for so long.  I think the suicide =
=3D
theory explains things rather nicely.  What holes do you guys see?

-Steve

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