(urth) Pike's ghost

[James Wynn]

On 11/22/2011 3:24 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 4:10 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>>
>>>> James Wynn wrote:
>>>> Now, I want to include a another wrinkle I've been toying with and 
>>>> you might
>>>> not have see it. I've always considered it a remarkable coincidence 
>>>> Horn was
>>>> dying on Green just as Silk was killing himself in front of Hy's 
>>>> casket. But
>>>> if dream-travel is Time-travel this would not have been a problem 
>>>> for the
>>>> Neighbors. So is possible that when Horn starts his mission, Silk has
>>>> already slashed his wrists. Consequently, when Mucor sets out for 
>>>> Silk the
>>>> only one she finds is the Rajan. When she sees him, she recognizes 
>>>> him as
>>>> Silk and tell him of her mission. He gives her the warning that 
>>>> Mucor will
>>>> later deliver to Horn. But then he dutifully takes her to the past 
>>>> so she
>>>> can "find Silk". When she sees where he has taken her, she realizes 
>>>> that
>>>> this is not the Silk she is looking for ** so she returns to her 
>>>> body as all
>>>> dream-travelers do, by waking up.
>>>
>>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>> '[T]he only one she finds is the Rajan' implying that the Rajan was 
>>> present in some place at that particular moment in time, with no 
>>> other Silk present in any place at that particular moment in time.
>
> Why is that not the Silk she is looking for?

Because she is looking for a Silk that Horn can bring to New Viron. If 
she takes _this_ Silk then there will _be_ no New Viron. Also, Wolfe 
seems to be excluding temporal paradoxes. Mucor will not make a decision 
to take Silk into the future since he has to stay and finish the story 
of The Book of the Long Sun.