Mucor's fate

maa32 · 04 Apr 2001, 09:32 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (whorl) Mucor's fate
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:32:38
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Since I've only read the short sun books once (quickly) I'm sure I missed=20
something, but in RttW it seemed to me that Mucor was quite dead and that h=
er=20
manifestation on the whorl was just a spiritual residue.  Why else would=20
Marble leave?  (I would re-read the 3rd person narrative sections, but I do=
n't=20
have the book with me).  Is Mucor explicitly around when Silk picks Marble =
up?
 She doesn't show up at all in the "present" timeline of the text, does she=
? =20
There's no reason for her to be left behind. =20
Also, the town that Pig claims he is from, then denounces as made up, is=20
listed as a real town in the proper names of the whorl.  Does that name mea=
n=20
anything?  Could it be real, a the retractiona mere dissembling on Pig's pa=
rt?=20
(I like the whole "Pig as godling" theory that Mr. Borski has, and I think =
it=20
works very nicely)

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