Sinew's parentage

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 23 Feb 2005, 17:22 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed Feb 23 17:22:17 2005
Subject: (urth) Sinew's parentage
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Well, Horn, Hoof, Hide and Sinew are all not-usually-eatable 
parts of an animal (not considered "meat"). They're also all
parts that would be considered important by a maker of pen,
ink, and paper.

--Dan'l


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:05:04 -0500, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I had just sat down to post something about this and looky here...
> 
> Stone Ox wrote:
> >> I'm not arguing with him (yet).
> >
> >You haven't yet.  The Amazon search copy (even the one
> >linked from the hardback edition) has the page numbers
> >from the mass market paperback.
> 
> Yeah. I was able to find with the quote you provided. I missed it the first
> time through. It had a ">" at the start of if and I took for part of my
> post. Sorry about that. And thanks for the quote.
> 
> And my last post came off more peevish than I intended. I'm working a lot of
> hours lately. Sorry 'bout that too. It might have contributed to the
> peevishness of Roy's post, but I'm not sure about that.
> 
> Now as for that quote:
> "... Within that point of light [the Whorl] Sinew had been conceived, in all
> probability, in the
> Calde's Palace.  It did not seem possible." pg 430
> 
> That's a very good point and I don't have a ready answer for it.
> 
> However, when I was shaving this morning I remembered something about that
> "timeline problem" in the SS that I mentioned in my post. When I was reading
> the SS, I could not get the idea that Sinew's name seemed all wrong for
> Horn's son, but worked quite well for SILK's son. A sinew is a kind of
> thread and so is silk. And both names start with the same letter. But Horn
> gave a description of the timeline of Sinew's birth that made me convinced
> (aside from the normal disinclination's to the theory) that it was
> impossible for Silk to be Sinew's father. Now Roy has reminded me of a
> reference I had forgotten about that puts Silk back on the spot.
> 
> Now Roy (if I'm at all familiar with Roy and I am) will hit the roof a this.
> But (mournings glory's assurances aside) Sinew's name has always smelled
> suspicious to me. I suppose when I get back to Texas, I'll have re-read the
> LS and SS just to find the timeline problem that puts Sinew's conception
> outside of the Whorl.
> 
> Oh, before anyone mentions it, I'm well aware that Horn says Sinew looks
> exactly like him -- "devilishly" so (devilishly? Why should it be surprising
> at all?). But that doesn't surprise me in the least even if Sinew is not
> Horn's natural son, for reasons I'll be better able to explain if I can
> decide -- to the degree of certainty that Roy has -- who Sinew's bio-dad is.
> 
> ~ Crush
> 
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