(urth) Silk's origin

[James Wynn]

On 10/13/2011 1:14 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> (Food for thought: it says [Chenille's] like a female AUK.  How about real misdirection?  Horn thinks Silk is the heir of Typhon and plants clues to hint at it when maybe it was always somebody else)

Well, I've always kind of suspected something like this.

1) But you still have the "son not of my body". If Auk is the *actual* 
son and intended heir, then how is he not the son of Tussah's 
body--unless you interpret the term as I do.

Additionally, I've mentioned before that there is a weird pairing of 
Silk and Auk in the story at narrative and figurative level. Silk 
shrives Auk before the robbery of Blood's house. Auk shrives Silk 
afterwards...insisting he confess all he did without leaving anything out.

On a figurative level, Auk and Silk divide the acts of both Hesphaestus 
and those of Aristeaus between them. I've often toyed with idea that 
Silk is a clone of Typhon and Auk/Tussah are clones of Piaton. If Auk 
was also a clone AND the intended heir that moves the "son not of my 
body" prophesy into a really twisted area--because Auk is the son of 
Typhon but only the son of Piaton after they became the same person.

Again, all this only works if you can accept (what I think is 
inescapable) that Wolfe has sprinkled embryos all over the books and the 
embryos are clones (many of whom, at least,  clones of Typhon's family 
and court).

2) The second problem with Auk as the intended heir is *why didn't he 
inherit*?  Clearly Tussah expected the gods to accomplish it, so what 
went wrong?

J.