Malrubius' ghost

Roy C. Lackey · 22 Jul 2003, 05:18 · from urth-v0307.mbox · original

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From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Malrubius' ghost
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:18:22 -0500
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Don, replying to Dan'l's sound post wrote:

>I see no reason to doubt your conclusion since Silk/Malrubius appears
>to Sev before the aquastor.  Besides, if Silk can travel through time
>as well as space (and in an expanding universe wouldn't time travel
>necessarily involve motion?) it is possible that he is Malrubius in
>actuality.  Even if this isn't the case, I see no real contradiction.

As Dan'l also wrote in that post:

>Nah. Much more likely that Wolfe hadn't invented Silk yet then.

I agree. Malrubius could not be Silk in actuality. Malrubius may have been
some sort of mentor to Sev, but that's not saying much; Hitler also liked
dogs. Malrubius was a Master in a guild that hurt and maimed and killed
people for a living. Silk was much nearer the opposite end of the moral
spectrum. He could never have done those things to people; it's just not his
nature. Hell, he thought he had sinned when he "killed" a talus, a stupid
_machine_ that was trying to kill him.

-Roy

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