RTTW spoilers, mea culpa

Adam Stephanides · 13 Feb 2001, 13:07 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) RTTW spoilers, mea culpa
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:07:37 +0000
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on 2/12/01 2:15 AM, Michael Andre-Driussi at mantis at sirius.com wrote:

> Eek!  In my rush to express my intuition that the Silk-to-Horn/Silk
> transfer happened at a very specific point in the text (when Horn/Silk se=
es
> Pig face to face after the operation), not off-stage somewhere (nor
> anywhere else in time), I temporarily forgot all the monitor-to-eyeball
> "rules of possession" previously established.

I hope you won't be offended if I ask you where this intuition comes from.
I'm sure you understand the book much better than me, but I honestly don't
recall anything which even suggests that Silk's spirit is absent from his
body when Horn's spirit is transferred in, and is "reloaded" from Pig after
the operation (if I understand your position correctly).

--Adam

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