Horn as antihero; Horn's body

mark millman · 06 Apr 2000, 10:05 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: mark millman <millman at us.ncipher.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Horn as antihero; Horn's body
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:05:27
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At 11:36 pm (-0700) on 5 April 2000, Adam Stephanides wrote:

> At 11:05 pm EDT on 3 April 2000, alga wrote:
>
>> See above. Horn may think that if he, Horn,=20
>> is in Silk's body, then the real Silk, whom he=20
>> reveres and truly wants to find, may be in=20
>> another body.
>
> As I said above, if Horn thinks Silk is in another body,=20
> and doesn't want to be found, then there is no need=20
> for him to cite distance as a possible reason why Silk=20
> might be on Blue and yet not found.  A Silk in another=20
> body and hiding his identity would be virtually impos-
> sible to find, even if he were living next door to Horn.
>
> And Silk's possibly being in another body wouldn't ex-
> plain why Horn doesn't mention being in Silk's body.

Well, if Silk were in a two-headed Pas-body, he'd certainly be a
topic of conversation and very unlikely to pass anywhere with-
out notice.  We probably won't have much evidence on this ei-
ther way until Horn makes it back to the _Whorl_. =20

This argument, of course, doesn't address why Horn doesn't say
that he is (or thinks he is) in Silk's body.  I think that he is aware
that he looks like Silk--I believe he thinks that's why the Gaonese
made him Rajan--but we can't yet say whether he's in the body=20
formerly belonging to Silk, or in another one that's very like or
identical to it.

Nacre

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