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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:12 AM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>>Could be...I'm still not sure Pas went into Silk at the end of Long Sun.</div>
<div>>If he didn't, that's just Silk in Silk's body until the Horn-patterned Neighbor shows up.</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Well, the individual explanations I offer have a way of cascading toward my conclusion. It's something that has to be taken as a whole. I recognize that.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">If one acknowledges that the Raja is a Neighbor who has reanimated Horn and is in some way Horn himself, then it becomes difficult not to say, "Hmm...resurrected Horn is a beast with TWO horns. Where does the other horn come from? Silk? How is Silk a "horn" or Horn? It would be tidy to say that Horn is one of those special embryos, and a clone of the *same* person of whom Silk was, but that's impossible because they don't look alike. Horn could once do a good impression of Silk, but his sons don't think he looks like him. </font></div>
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<div>I see your point...the third "horn" is Typhon if Horn is a clone of Typhon. Or Horn's soul--the actual soul of the honest-to-goodness Horn goes into Babbie, who has two horns already, making three. I think both are plausible and I'll pay mind to both in my reread.</div>
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<div>I also tend to think, though, that Silk is a powered-up clone of Typhon rather than Typhon's biological son with "Kypris" or a clone of that son. </div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">There are other ways to put the pieces together, in isolation, rather than say that Silk had Pas in him. But **choosing** the particular answer from among the others and accepting Horn as a clone of Typhon (which resolves other things) is only way I know of to get Horn into Silk (without feral speculation). </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Resolving Wolfean puzzles often requires picking from multiple, viable solutions. To do that, I prefer to look at all the open problems as a whole and see which arrangement of solutions ties up the most open puzzles I have without refuting a bunch of other solutions. </font></div>
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<div>>I also want to note that this whole thing is a rationalization of the Incarnation, not the Trinity.</div>
<div>>The three Persons of the Trinity all share a single essence (in orthodox Christianity, that is),</div>
<div>>whereas Jesus Christ possessed two essences in a single Person. </div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Technically, I suppose you're right. But I think a Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three-in-one analogy was what Wolfe was going for.</font></div>
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