silver glass

Chris · 11 Jan 2005, 17:22 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: rasputin_ at hotmail.com (Chris)
Date: Tue Jan 11 17:22:10 2005
Subject: (urth) silver glass
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What makes it quite tricky is that any supposed slips that we can catch are 
for events that we've already seen described in BotLS - authored by Nettle 
and *Horn*. All we know about Silk's life, even, is what Horn has had 
described to him, what he has interpolated/imagined, or downright made up to 
fill in gaps. I have never been able to fully dismiss the possibility that 
Silk is largely a fictional character invented by Horn (to give hope to the 
inhabitants of Blue, or for whatever reason).

Not that I'm advocating this as the most likely theory or anything. Just 
that our knowledge of the "real Silk" has to keep Horn's part in BotLS in 
mind.

> >There is no doubt that the Narrator, right from _OBW_ on, has memories
> >of Silk's life and occasionally slips and says things as if he were Silk
>rather
> >than Horn: thus referring to his wife as "Hyacinth," for example.
>
>That is true but the entire series was written after the Narrator returns 
>to
>Blue and therefore after he separates from Pig. So the only errors and
>references that can "count" are those from RTTW describing events on the
>Whorl and only those that are dialog by the Narrator or that refer directly
>to his state of mind at the time.
>
>That's why asking for specific instances is so tough. But I *am* convinced
>they are there (and the quote I gave is proof enough for me).
>
>~ Crush
>
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