yet more despair

Seth Lombardi · 16 Jul 2002, 09:14 · from urth-v0207.mbox · original

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From: "Seth Lombardi" <sethlombardi at hotmail.com>
Subject: (urth) yet more despair
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 04:14:00 -0500
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Blattid wrote:
"2. Can someone explain to me why people have trouble believing that Silk=20
might have gashed his arms in grief? Not only is this clearly established a=
s=20
a grieving practice in Viron (see, for example, Orpine's funeral); it is a=20
well established historically as a practice in the "real" world. And, as=20
Nutria so succintly put it, "I don't think this skilled auger tried to kill=20
himself and failed." "

I=E2=80=99m perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that you=E2=80=
=99re right, and my=20
post Gen-X hyper ironic brain simply took the more negative, and thence mor=
e=20
"dramatic" of two possibilities. I=E2=80=99m extremely curious as to your=20
interpretation of Remora=E2=80=99s rejected wedding passage, however. My ow=
n is less=20
than logical and complete, but it seems to me that that "shepherd" stands=20
for Silk while "hyacinth" stand for, well, Hyacinth.

Also, when we meet Silk again for the first time, I believe his wounds are=20
grievous enough to be fatal without some interjection. Would Silk have=20
patched himself up without a will injection from Horn? Seems improbable fro=
m=20
an individual experiencing despair on a level that necessitates the melding=20
of souls.

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Seth Lombardi
sethlombardi at hotmail.com
http://pages.prodigy.net/nlom/blogg.html
AIM: melombardi
"Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side their=20
likeness makes us laugh" -Pascal

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