Tales of Silk and Horn

Don Doggett · 11 Dec 2004, 23:22 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: harlekin at earthlink.net (Don Doggett)
Date: Sat Dec 11 23:22:30 2004
Subject: (urth) Tales of Silk and Horn
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On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 10:39 AM, James Wynn wrote:

>
> So by the time he starts writing the Book of the Short Sun, the 
> Narrator is
> Horn's psyche and Silk's psyche and a Neighbor's soul and by the end 
> of his
> story he ultimately realizes that he is neither most truly Horn nor 
> Silk,
> but the soul inside or, perhaps,  something entirely different from all
> three.
>

I believe he is at long last, the Silk of LS (or "The Book of Silk" if 
you will), a character who never truly existed until Horn made him.

Don

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