Two Silk questions

Michael Straight · 15 Jul 2002, 18:05 · from urth-v0207.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Two Silk questions
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:05:28 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, James Jordan wrote:

> Pas is not yet dead when Silk sees his dead biological parents in the=20
> Outsider's "Mainframe," so he cannot be Silk's father. I think the=20
> blondness of Pas and Kypris is a thematic parallel, or a red herring, or =
both.

"Pas" has no genes from which to make Silk.  Typhon did (skin cells from
his head, or germ cells frozen from his original body).  And Typhon is
dead by Silk's time.  Silk might be an embryo engineered from the genes of
Typhon and <whatever Kypris's real name was>.

The harder bit to swollow is that Silk's spirit would go to the same place
as Typhon's when he died.

-Rostrum

--=20

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