godlings

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 20 Apr 2001, 10:07 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) Re: Re: Re: Re: godlings
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:07:18
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Der Borgelnuskie wrote:

> ... [O]thers believe ... that Silk has committed suicide or
> accidentally bled to dead from cuts inflicted during the
> grieving process.

As the originator (as far as I know) of the Silk-cut-himself-in-
grief hypothesis, I have to point out that this hypothesis does=20
_not_ involve Silk bleeding to death, accidentally or otherwise.

In fact, I profoundly doubt the value or validity of _any_ theory=20
that involves Silk being (physically) dead at the time Horn=20
"possesses" him. The whole point of what the Neighbor offers Horn=20
is to take a living soul from a dying body and put it into a=20
living body with a dying soul. (My wording; I don't have the text=20
before me.)

--Blattid

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