(urth) Silk for Calde

Paul B pb.stuff at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 12:05:09 PST 2009


That's interesting.  However, I was talking about the full "Silk for Calde"
slogan, which someone must have intentionally written.

Paul

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM, John Smith <jsmith2627 at att.net> wrote:

> Silk himself is responsible for one piece of graffiti    When he goes to
> the home of Teasel, the girl who was dying from the bite of the vampire
> Quetzal, he tries to protect her from evil spirits by writing his name
> outside her window (also Patera Pike's name, if I recall correctly).   I
> don't have the books with me, but I think the apartment was on the 5th
> floor.   I believe that later someone reports that Silk's name had appeared
> high up, perhaps 5 floors up.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jack
>
>
> --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Paul B <pb.stuff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Paul B <pb.stuff at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: (urth) Calde of the Long Sun and Learning to Read Wolfe
> > To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 1:11 PM
> > If I remember correctly, wasn't the slogan chalked on a
> > rather high wall?  I
> > suppose he could have gotten a ladder, and it's
> > certainly true that he has a
> > motive.  But does he, or do his superiors, actually admit
> > to it?
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
> > <danldo at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Crane.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Paul B
> > <pb.stuff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > This reminds me of an interesting point that was
> > addressed on the list
> > > > briefly, but inconclusively if I remember
> > correctly.  That being, who
> > > really
> > > > got the ball rolling on "Silk for
> > Calde"?  As far as plausible motives,
> > > the
> > > > ones considered were unknown confederates of
> > Tussah for somewhat obvious
> > > > reasons, and Quetzal for less obvious ones (he
> > somehow had to have
> > > > foreknowledge that Silk would have the best shot
> > at starting the
> > > > evacuation).  The other possibilities are the
> > Neighbors, who also
> > > > infiltrated the Whorl as per RttW (and have
> > reason to support the
> > > evacuation
> > > > too), and common folk who all of a sudden became
> > very impressed with Silk
> > > > (but why?!)
> > > > Is there any conclusive evidence out there?
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Craig Brewer
> > <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> But of course "Silk for Calde" was
> > scrawled on the wall because rumor of
> > > >> his enlightenment got around (at least
> > according to Horn).
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
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