(urth) the prime calcula/his citadel and other quotes

[António Pedro Marques]

James Wynn wrote:
> On 1/18/2011 8:27 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> But anyway - how much of the text do you need to ignore to press your
>> case that Silk is a clone of Typhon?
>
> Well, I choose to ignore the text that Wolfe didn't write but you think
> he ought to have.

(Yeah, we all got let down when GW struck out that paragraph in ExLS 'Many 
have come to us asking whether Patera Silk was Great Pas himself. Though 
both had blond hair, and maybe some similar features, Patera Silk's nose was 
a bit thinner than Great Pas's, and his cheekbones higher. His eyes, too, 
were wider apart, and the ears not so round. Where Great Pas's hair has 
great curls, Patera Silk's was straighter'. Certainly, without such a piece 
of evidence, the default conclusion is that Silk was Typhon's clone.)

Such brouhaha surrouding Silk and nobody thought of saying he was Pas 
incarnate? Because he missed a drooling head to the side?

You could say 'the text doesn't seem to support the idea that Silk is a 
clone of Typhon, but it doesn't completely forbid it either, so even against 
the odds, I'll build on that idea because I think it can lead somewhere'. 
But no, you choose to play 'no US tanks in Baghdad'. That's not the best way 
to present your case. It discredits it.