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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Roy C. Lackey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rclackey@stic.net">rclackey@stic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Dave Tallman quoted and wrote:<br>> > The "darkest night ever known" had nothing to do with the Long Sun. It<br>was<br>> > the dark night of Silk's soul.<br>> ><br>> That's plausible, but Silk does run into a genuine Long-Sun blackout in<br>
> the next section of their narrative, so Matthew's narrative compression<br>> idea may be right. It could also be that Silk forget about the lighted<br>> interlude when he told Hoof, Hide, and Daisy about this later.<br>
<br></div>The "darkest night ever known" bit is a metaphor. Two page inches above the<br>quote mentions "the hot sunshine streaming through the open door into the<br>poor little room." It was by that light that he saw the knife that he<br>
recoiled and backed away from and "stumbled through the open door into the<br>darkest night ever known."<br></blockquote>
<div>But if you looked only to RTTW surely you'd assume that the sun went out just as he was leaving the manse. Bright sunlight when he found himself in Silk, switching to dark as he left, groping blindly amongst trees in the next scene. Taking into account the IGJ passage, I like the compression explanation best. But maybe it's not that important.</div>
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