Witch spirit and Tales of Silk and Horn

StoneOx17 at aol.com · 06 Jan 2005, 04:12 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: StoneOx17 at aol.com (StoneOx17 at aol.com)
Date: Thu Jan  6 04:12:51 2005
Subject: (urth) Witch spirit and Tales of Silk and Horn
Message-ID: <be.1f94a361.2f0e8535 at aol.com>

In a message dated 1/6/2005 12:15:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
aramini1 at cox.net writes:

> B)
> I was reading a few posts called Tales of Silk and Horn and I wanted to say 
> one small thing about that.  I think the simplest scheme to describe who 
> inhabits Silk's body at any given point in the narrative is that Horn's 
body dies 
> on Green, his spirit is sent hurtling into Silk, whose spirit has been so 
wounded 
> (or has vacated his body) that it is no longer extent in the body.  

> Then, the quest to find Silk actually ENDS when Horn gives his (ok, Silk's) 
eye 
> to Pig, allowing Silver Silk, who is a download of Silk from the mainframe 
into 
> Pig, to re-enter the body of Silk by escaping Pig's eye , creating 
Silk+Horn.  
> Then, Horn begins writing.  He says his goodbyes and leaves the body of 
Silk, 
> and then Silver Silk, who was never the real Silk, takes up the tale of 
Horn and 
> his death at the beginning of In Green's Jungles, but denies that he is 
Silk until 
> he is forced into it, so that in the text, Silk admits that he is in fact 
Silk at 
> about the same place that Silver Silk is freed from Pig and placed in 
Silk's body.

Let me say that I really like this idea.  Does this make up for my trying to 
demolish your circular interpretation of WK in my last post?  

> So it is a copy of a copy of Silk that we are left with, like the copy of a 
copy of 
> Severian at the end of Urth.

But couldn't this be the real Silk now?  Are souls subject to mechanical 
manipulation and physical laws, or does the Outsider have direct authority
over them? 

> Hmm.

> Marc

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