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[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

There is no doubt that the Narrator, right from _OBW_ on, has memories
of Silk's life and occasionally slips and says things as if he were Silk rather
than Horn: thus referring to his wife as "Hyacinth," for example.


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:33:11 -0500, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>Narrator or not) that Horn will succeed in taking Silk to Blue. He will
> >>take
> >>Silk's body and all his memories (the Narrator makes several errors in
> >>memory while on the Whorl that prove he still retains Silk's memories as
> >>well as Horn's).
> >
> >I more or less agree, but now that you've got my interest piqued can you
> >give an example? I don't remember seeing any occasions that made it drop
> >dead certain to me that he had Silk's memories, but then it has been a
> >little while.
> 
> Oh that's a fine thing. I can't remember a mistake at this moment but I
> remember NOTING them as I read RTTW. Also, I don't have my books with me. A
> cursory search in Amazon's book search does offer this, however, although it
> is not an error and it is not unequivocal:
> 
> Narrator talking to the godling (who refers to him as "holy one"):
> "It was as if there were shooting stars in his hands, like the stars at the
> bottom of the grave to which Silk and Hyacinth had driven Orpine's body in a
> dream he recalled with uncanny clarity."
> RTTW 138
> 
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