Pig's eye

Marc Aramini write:

Silkhorn didn't need Pig to be able to see in order to "reboot" Silver Silk into Silkhorn. A glass or Sacred Window was needed to import or export a god, and Silkhorn had already been exposed to the Sacred Window in the Grand Manteion before the eye operation. (That is when and how a bit of Scylla got into Oreb, when Silk assisted with the sacrifices at the Grand Manteion on the same day that he was found by Hari Mau.) Rather, Silver Silk in Pig was trapped there by Pig's blindness. Silkhorn confronted the Silver Silk in Pig in Hy's old room in the ruins of Blood's villa, saying: "You're not with her now, I realize. As long as Pig is blind, you can't go back to her." Silver Silk answered, "Correct. Though I would try to have his sight restored in any case, just as you yourself are making a praiseworthy effort to restore Maytera's." (RTTW, 174) And there was a working glass in Pig's recovery room for Silver Silk to use in order to reintegrate with his greater self in Mainframe. -Roy

So was Silver Silk still in mainframe while he was trapped in Pig? I need to look it over again. I know he was trapped in Pig ... but is that a fragment or "all" of him? The copying/deletion gets a bit onerous.

So I guess I'm asking if SilverSilk was only reuniting with his greater part or "returning" wholesale to mainframe, where he could then flash a part of himself back to the body of Silk (if he was deleted or not present previously, perhaps this would not be possible)

I presume Silver Silk is like any other Mainframe entity. A part --and aspect-- of him can possess humans, chems, and animals. When the part returns to Mainframe, it's memories and identity are reintegrated into the whole.

Marc Aramini wrote (30-11-2011 17:41):

The narrator acts Silky enough from the first moment, which suggests there is Silk in him, but showing no memory of the 20 years between LS and the sending of Horn into Silk's body. So where did that Silk come from? Horn's memories becoming personality once in Silk's body?

_______________________________________________ Yes, Silver Silk in Pig could only reunite with his greater self in Mainframe. That is the only way he could reunite with the "her" of the quote I gave. Not even a human can come close to harboring all that constitutes a god in the giant computer that is Mainframe. Scylla in Chenille at the lake also said she must reintegrate with her greater self in Mainframe, when she left Chenille. There is no reason to suppose that Silver Silk had been wiped out of Mainframe. And yes, it would have been possible for the greater Silver Silk in Mainframe to flash part of himself into Silk's body, whether by way of the Grand Manteion's Sacred Window or the working glass in Pig's recovery room. Of course the "her" of the quote most properly refers to Kypris, because Hy wasn't dead at the time Silver Silk became trapped in Pig. Hy may have "gone to Mainframe", so to speak, when she died, but it wasn't Hy that Silver Silk was longing for. -Roy