Digest whorl.v012.n042 (RTTW SPOILERS!)

Spectacled Bear · 12 Feb 2001, 09:32 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Spectacled Bear <spectacled.bear at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v012.n042 (RTTW SPOILERS!)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:32:33 +0000
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At 10:32 2001-02-09 -0800, Shannon Appelcline wrote:
...
>Another point on narrative style:
>
>* The place in RTTW where I really started to wonder if Horn was Horn was=20
>when he was speaking to Silk in Blood's mansion. It became blatantly=20
>obvious that their styles of speech were very, very similar. That pedantic=
,=20
>totally truthful style of speech that we've become so familiar with=20
>throughout the Short Sun series.
>
>I'm wondering if this is intended as a real clue or if it's just how the=20
>Vironese speak. We have four books that are good samples of Horn's writing=20
>(though edited by Nettle). We also have samples of his speech in those=20
>books, which we probably can presume are less edited. How does Horn's=20
>speech in TBotLS compare with his speech in TBotSS?

No-one else from Viron talks like that, with the sole and interesting
exception of Hound. Does he just imitate Silk? He clearly knows of him.
Or am I imagining it?

Spectacled Bear.

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