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

Gerry Quinn gerryq at indigo.ie
Wed Jan 19 10:33:04 PST 2011


From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>
> > António Pedro Marques wrote:
> > I originally meant to show how you were imposing an unreasonable demand 
> > on the text to dispell the notion that Silk might be Typhon's clone - 
> > i.e., that you were saying that he was, and that the absence of textual 
> > support was irrelevant because there was no explicit textual refutation.
>
> Okay. I see what you were attempting exemplify. Unfortunately (hence my 
> confusion) I didn't do that. To the contrary. I was arguing against Roy's 
> and Gerry's assertion that, occulted hints be damned, it can't be so 
> because Horn did not record people coming out and saying it. There are 
> loads of textual support, so your presumption is wrong. Gerry does not 
> deny that there is. He says it doesn't matter because everyone would be 
> pointing at Silk and saying "There goes Pas!"

I also question whether there is "loads of textual support".  In truth, I am 
hard-pressed to see any.  But I accept that you and perhaps others do.  So I 
concentrate on the consequences we would expect to see if Silk were indeed 
somehow a clone of Typhon.

- Gerry Quinn





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