(urth) chenille

[Marc Aramini]

Short Sun is so ambiguous, it is disconcerting at times, but I do think he waffles back and forth on the ring a time or two, but at one point he does claim it is Seawrack's ring.  That waffling makes definitive interpretation very very difficult.  I still think it's a good argument that Chenille was freed, but of course, like everything in Wolfe, it's complicated by the narrator's incompetence in identification.

--- On Sat, 11/26/11, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> wrote:

> From: Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr>
> Subject: Re: (urth) chenille
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011, 1:24 PM
> In the middle of ch.9 of RttW the
> narrator writes: "I see I have confused the rings.
> The one I am wearing is not the one Sewrack gave me,
> although it resembles it closely.
> This is Oreb's ring. It seems the stone changes color when
> it is worn; it was originally
> much darker, surely."
> 
> Of course you may dismiss it as many other things, saying
> that "Silkhorn" just doesnt't
> want to recognize that it is the same ring.
> 
> But to me it is opening another line of thinking that seems
> to me more interesting:
> what are these rings? What properties do they have?
> 
> I remember also (but I could not find yet) the place where
> some of "big women"
> in Dorp complains "I am so weak, mysire" (probably it was
> she who was attacked in the alley
> by Jahlee).
> 
> Sergei
> 
> Marc Aramini wrote:
> > Quick question, James.  If you don't think the
> big woman blitzed on something in the alley is Chenille,
> then how did the ring from Horn's body get to Dorp for Oreb
> to drop it in the Rajan's hands?  Horn died on Green
> trying to get to the Lander, the ring on his finger.
> > 
> > I think Chenille was freed, Auk probably repaired the
> lander, and Oreb got the ring either from her left in the
> alley or picked it up on one of the others who escped from
> Green with them.
> > 
> > I'm fairly confident that with Horn's ring reappearing
> from Green on blue in Dorp, that big woman almost HAS to be
> Chenille.
> > 
> > It also explains how Silk is leaving at the end of
> Rttw.
> > 
> > 
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