Digest whorl.v012.n038

Bob Musser · 06 Feb 2001, 09:47 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Bob Musser" <rmusser at mindspring.com>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v012.n038
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:47:41
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On 6 Feb 01, at 8:20, whorl-errors at lists1.ba.best.c wrote:

> > "I would never have used it while Nettle was alive",
> > confused me, Jahlee didn't kill Nettle, did she?=20
> > Didn't Nettle go with Silk and Marble?
>=20
> No and No.

No and Yes, I think.  Last paragraph, last page, refering to the=20
receeding Whorl:

"They are in it, I hope, he and his eerie young woman (Seawrack),=20
Nettle, the old sibyl, and their bird, on course upon a greater sea to=20
strange new islands."

On the previous page, Silk asks Daisy to make his goodbyes to=20
Hoof and Hide.  "Nettle is making her own, and cannot be bothered=20
with mine."

>> If Silk is so GOOD, as Hoof and Clute suggest (and I
>> believe, as well) why did he arrange to kill so many
>> Inhumu, in the city on Green, and at the wedding?=20

>He didn't arrange to kill a bunch of inhumi, he
>arranged to be killed a couple. He just underestimated
>Juganu's recruitment abilities. Then he had to help
>lead a battle to keep the wedding party/ town getting
>munched.

I think the carnage which follows Silk around is one of the=20
frightening aspects of his goodness.  He doesn't instigate it; it=20
flows from the responses of those who fear him.  I'm starting to re-
read the series and haven't revisited Green as yet, so I'm not sure if=20
the same theory can be applied to Horn's actions there.

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