(urth) Silk's origin

[Marc Aramini]

Just one more thing I wanted to note.  I always start with "themes" in any explication - the repetitive inclusion of ghost stories in Peace, for example, made a compelling pattern of ghostliness that matched up with the more discrete hints of the narrator's death.  similarly, in the sun series, from the very first two chapters of Shadow Severian thinks that light will engender life in a brush that will run up a tree, and then near the end of Citadel he thinks of the great green emerald forests that will flourish when the new sun comes.
 
In Short Sun, the first chapter talks about those hybrids in the vegetable world.  In the last non-epilogue chapter of RTTW, Silk is touched by the story of Hyacinth(us), whose blood falls and in dying as a man springs up as a flower.  THIS IS THE END OF THE MAIN STORY, it's important n several ways  One of these ways is the obvious one of Hyacinth and her death, recalling Silk to himself.  He was headed to the wrong home, now he can head to his home in the stars.  This lack of ability to distinguish the actual homeward odyssey can be applied to mankind in this case.  We've always known the white fountain would lead to the Green Man future.  The story of Hyacinthus is one in which even though the man dies his blood becomes a flower that lives  This s what has happened.  
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