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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma">> And, why would a neighbor, finally admitting
what he is, if only to himself,</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma">>choose to return to the Whorl, at the very
end? Silk, yes, but a neighbor?<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"><FONT face=Arial>Well, the Neighbors aren't
hanging around Blue and Green, are they?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"><FONT face=Arial>They've said they're moving on.
It's humanity, now granted the deed to Blue that is leaving.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"><FONT face=Arial>The ending is a mystery to me as
well. I feel like I'm supposed to recognize Oreb's "Good Fishing!" comment as a
reference. But I'll be danged if I do. Consider that Wolfe says the the
first thing he plots is his ending. Sheesh.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"><FONT face=Arial>Where are they all going? To
find another planet to colonize, I suppose. But this is one of the more hurtful
events for believing that the Short Sun is Sol. After returning to a depopulated
Urth or Ushas. Why are they leaving again?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>>I think the sine qua non has got to be that it's really </DIV>
<DIV>>Silk talking to Remora at the big reveal, right? </DIV>
<DIV>>Either Silk was clinging to his body when Neighbor/Horn(?)</DIV>
<DIV>>got poured into it, or Silk reentered the body via Pig at</DIV>
<DIV>>some point, but that's Silk in there at the end.<BR>>Not necessarily
"only" Silk, though.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Silk was always "there". That's his body. He's got a brain
full of memories. His love for Hyacinth is still there, in that regard. I would
guess that Horn's memories only exist anymore in the memory of the Neighbor. You
seem to be thinking of the Raja as a Neighbor in human disguise. He's not. Like
the Mani the cat, he's neither Neighbor nor Horn nor Silk. He's a new
thing.</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>