It's Mostly the Ending

Michael Straight · 11 Apr 2001, 10:46 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) It's Mostly the Ending
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:46:54
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, David Lebling wrote:

> There are two major areas where the book as a whole lets us down on, and
> we've beaten them both to death, but I'll say again:
>=20
> b) the fact that the narrator is Horn in Silk's body has been obvious sin=
ce
> the first volume, so the climactic revelation that the narrator is Horn in
> Silk's body falls flat.

I thought the climactic revelation was that the narrator is Silk in Silk's
body.

-Rostrum

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