Digest whorl.v012.n032

Michael Straight · 31 Jan 2001, 14:04 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v012.n032
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:04:01
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 akt at attglobal.net wrote:

> Rostrum, IMO, is also right about Horn/Silk's eating problem, so evident
> in IGJ; I posited the same observation (I point out delicately) several
> times quite a while ago.

I may have missed your post in the archives, but most of the discussion I
saw assumed it had something to do with Silk's personality influencing
Horn, whereas I was pointing out that it could just be a physical
limitation of Silk's body and prove nothing about how much of Silk's
personality still remains. =20

For that matter, it could also be explained by Horn having decided to take
up fasting as part of his Imitatio Silki.

In fact, the only indication I can see that any of Silk's personality is
still in there is that bit where he refers to Seawrack's singing as being
Hyacinth's.

-Rostrum

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