(urth) Pike's ghost

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Tue, 11/29/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Pike's ghost
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 9:19 AM
> On 11/29/2011 11:09 AM, António
> Pedro Marques wrote:
> > Now for something completely different (really). Who
> is (are?) the Silk in the Rajan?
> > 
> > - Has the original Silk been lost?
> > - No Silk we meet seems to know anything about the 20
> years of Silk's life after Horn left the Whorl.
> 
> Obviously, I believe that Wolfe has created a narrator for
> these stories who, while writing in first-person, is
> analogous to Horn and Nettle writing about Silk.
> 
> > - At the end of RW we simultaneously learn how 'a'
> Silk may or may have not been hiding in Pig, and how 'Silk'
> accepts he is Silk in New Viron. 
> 
> That's not my interpretation of the final events at all.
> 
> > However, the two episodes have no connection between
> them. The 'Silk in denial' we meet, except for the bit
> aboard the Whorl, is all after the appearance of the Silk in
> Pig. Which Silk is the one in Pig? Does he or does he not
> get into the [then yet to be] Rajan?
> 
> It is an interesting question as to whether Silver Silk has
> possessed the Rajan.
> 

I am almost certain the reason for the conclusion of Short Sun being the sacrifice of the eye (in flash back anyway) is simply that THAT is the moment when Silk is "saved"/rebooted.  He pretty much left the building/lost his will to live when Hy died, and that reboot is an integral way to the manner I read the text: most of the Rajan post OBW is, in my opinion, dominated by the Silver Silk personality that rode in Pig.  I guess I could be wrong, but I think that is key to Silk's reconstitution, re-enacting the reconstitution of Pas.