Witch spirit and Tales of Silk and Horn

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 07 Jan 2005, 09:31 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri Jan  7 09:31:09 2005
Subject: (urth) Witch spirit and Tales of Silk and Horn
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I should like to point out that the downloading of "Silver Silk" into 
the Narrator remains speculative. There are several explanations 
(not all mutually exculsive) of how the Narrator comes to realize 
that he is Silk and what, precisely, it means. Furthermroe, there is, 
so far as I know, no direct or usefully indirect textual evidence to 
suggest that the SSilk persona is "reloaded" into the Narrator at
_any_ point. 

For those who hold that SilverSilk is downloaded into the 
Narrator,I suggest it would be worth spending a bit of effort
finding support for the theory before elaborating its details more.

--Dan'l

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 1:20:29 -0500, aramini1 at cox.net <aramini1 at cox.net> wrote:
> Adam said:
> > But neither of these passages were written by Silkhorn; the juxtaposition of
> > the two is the editors' work.
> >
> 
> My point was that Wolfe has consciously constructed the book in such a fashion - not Silkhorn.
> 
> Marc
> 
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