Digest whorl.v012.n099Whorl

That's what I can happen when I post before my first cup of coffee has kicked in. What I should have said is: "The narrator occupies Silk's body, but the climactic revelation that Silk's mind is still there with Horn's falls flat because we've known or at least suspected so since the first volume." or perhaps: "From early on in volume one we've known that the physical body of the narrator is Silk's. We've also known that Silk's personality is in that body as well as Horn's. The final acknowledgement by the narrator that he is in fact Silk falls flat, because we've known or suspected it for a long time." As I said in an earlier post, we're watching Silk repair himself behind the Horn 'front,' and when he's done, Horn isn't necessary to him anymore. Seeing Silk recognize this is a poignant moment, and the best part of the denouement, but we saw it coming all along, so the impact is less. -- Dave Lebling aka vizcacha *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.