Conjectures [SPOILER]

Adam Stephanides · 11 Feb 2001, 23:15 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Conjectures [SPOILER]
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:15:51 +0000
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on 2/11/01 11:45 PM, mattjaq at telocity.com at mattjaq at telocity.com wrote:

> (7) At the end, Silk is sorry because he says that he killed Hoof and Hid=
e's
> father. This is very mysterious. Is this simply because he feels it was h=
is
> fault that he didn't orginally take the landers in BotLS with the other
> people, and as a result people felt the need to return to find him? Or is=
 it
> because he had some other plan of reviving Horn?

He says he killed Horn "in a sense," which is somewhat different.  I took
him to mean that by recovering his own identity, he destroyed the
Horn-persona; or else that his reviving "spirit" was somehow responsible for
driving out Horn's spirit.

--Adam

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