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[Roy C. Lackey]

Dave Tallman wrote:
> About the apparition of "Patera Pike" --
> 1) Pike was old when he died. RttW p. 40 says he was about eighty.
> 2) The apparition is called "the old auger," which happens to fit the
future
> Silk perfectly.
> 3) Wolfe in the Q+A session didn't ever say it was a real ghost. He said
it
> wasn't machine generated and it wasn't Quetzal in disguise. That's all. If
> he was ever more definite in another interview I'd like to see the
citation.
> Even if he was it could still fir Silk/Rajan.

It has long been my belief that Wolfe said Pike in the manse was a ghost,
and I know I'm not the only one with that impression. If he didn't state so
expressly elsewhere, this is the best I can do to reconstruct the belief. At
the time of the Q&A, the SS concept of astral travel was unknown to us.
Given the way the first Pike question was phrased, when Wolfe's answer
eliminated an aquastor and the answer to the second Pike question eliminated
Quetzal, a ghost was what was left. Sorry, but that's the best I can come up
with.

-Roy