(urth) First Exodus theory revised

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>>Antonio Pedro Marques:

>> I also don't like the idea of multiple Silks or Silk-like figures. For 
>> one
>>thing, Horn travels a lot through Blue and always has to explain why Silk 
>>is
>>important to him, and nobody says 'yeah, we had someone like that also'.
>
> I think this is good reasoning. By it, we must conclude that  Pas' Plan 
> was meant to use Viron as a
> central focus point for the whole Whorl.

This does not follow at all from the absence of multiple Silks.  (At least 
not without the addition of various other postulates.)


>>But like with the Silk-as-clone theory, it's not only that nobody mentions 
>>it, it's that
>>nobody behaves accordingly.
>
> I find grounds to disagree. Especially if we consider James' theory of 
> Spring Wind=Typhon, using
> Alexander as a model. Alexander/Spring Wind is a gentle, intellectual 
> mama's boy who rises to become
> a clever, charismatic military general. Silk also.  Alexander/Typhon loses 
> it when he sits on a throne
> and becomes a jaded, besotted megalomaniac.

The above is no more than an assertion that people can change (especially if 
they probably aren't the same person to begin with).  It doesn't speak to 
Antonio's point that nobody in the story - not Silk, not other people, not 
the gods - act like Silk is Typhon's clone.  Silk's personality isn't a 
particularly important issue.

- Gerry Quinn