(urth) The eyes of a clone

[David Duffy]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, James Wynn wrote:

>
> a) Only one man (it seems) speaks. He has "the carved brown face from
> [Silk's ] mother's closet." He is also tall and blue-eyed. And...here is
>
> c) But why do readers keep assuming that the man with the "carved brown
> face" and the man with the blue eyes are different? Because we instinctively
> know that that doesn't fit. Eye-color is dependant on the amount of melanin
> you have. The more melanine, the darker your eyes. A brown faced man with
> blue eyes is...unnatural.
>

It is possible that the carved brown face is made of wood -- the 
experience is pretty dreamy.

David Duffy.