silver glass

James Wynn · 11 Jan 2005, 15:33 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: thewynns at earthlink.net (James Wynn)
Date: Tue Jan 11 15:33:14 2005
Subject: (urth) silver glass
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>>Narrator or not) that Horn will succeed in taking Silk to Blue. He will
>>take
>>Silk's body and all his memories (the Narrator makes several errors in
>>memory while on the Whorl that prove he still retains Silk's memories as
>>well as Horn's).
>
>I more or less agree, but now that you've got my interest piqued can you
>give an example? I don't remember seeing any occasions that made it drop
>dead certain to me that he had Silk's memories, but then it has been a
>little while.

Oh that's a fine thing. I can't remember a mistake at this moment but I
remember NOTING them as I read RTTW. Also, I don't have my books with me. A
cursory search in Amazon's book search does offer this, however, although it
is not an error and it is not unequivocal:

Narrator talking to the godling (who refers to him as "holy one"):
"It was as if there were shooting stars in his hands, like the stars at the
bottom of the grave to which Silk and Hyacinth had driven Orpine's body in a
dream he recalled with uncanny clarity."
RTTW 138

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