(urth) Dionysus

[Roy C. Lackey]

Gerry Quinn wrote, quoted, wrote:
> From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>
> >> Gerry Quinn-
>
> >> I think Silk cut himself in despair, but not fatally.  Why cut your
face
> >> if you want to kill your body?  His spirit was dying, but not his body.
> >> (In the end, I guess, his spirit got better, and Horn's died...)
> >
> > I know Silk's body had cuts on both his arms as well as his wrists. I
> > didn't remember that it says he cut his face as well. Where does it say
> > that?
> >
> > The cuts on his arms and wrists seem fairly serious. And while he is
being
> > bandaged he remembers/auditory halucinates that Remora had told him that
> > "ghosts, for the most part, did not realize they had died"[snip] "The,
ah,
> > religious know. Generally. Informed, eh? Expected. No ghosts of, um,
holy
> > augurs, hey? Or, er, sibyls."
>
> I think you're right about the cuts - I don't know where I got the face
> thing.

No, you are right. It's right on the same page you quoted from (I have
deleted the quote), IGJ p-127. It is Silkhorn's version of the first moments
after Horn's spirit entered Silk's body. If you compare his version with the
version at the opening of RTTW (written by third parties), you will find
that many details differ, not the least of which is that the Long Sun was in
fact shining when he left the room containing Hy's coffin.

-Roy