<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Chris P <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rasputin_@hotmail.com">rasputin_@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<br>> > Chenille became an inhumi? Maybe it's been far too long since<br>> >I read the books, but I don't recall that at all.<br>> <br>> Well, there are doubters about almost everything in a Wolfe novel,<br>
> isn't there? But there's a scene where Jahlee comes into a bar after<br>> feeding on a drunk victim. The Raja hears her voice and thinks she's<br>> Chenille. Based on that, I'm convinced that Jahlee's mother fed on<br>
> Chenille and so Jahlee has her soul within her, just as Sinew's soul<br>> is within Krait.<br>> <br>> Heck, maybe I'm out there alone regarding Krait as well.<br>> <br>> J.<br><br></div>This may just be an extension of the general problem of identity in the books. I don't have a problem with seeing Sinew within Krait, in a sense, but the idea that Krait IS Sinew seems off to me. Similarly with Chenille.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Krait has a copy of Sinew's soul, but it's a copy of Sinew's Thomistic soul from when Sinew was extremely young--they're more like identical twins then like being "the same person" because Sinew's personality wasn't very individualized at that point.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chenille/Jahlee ought to be a little different--Jahlee would have the personality of Chenille at an adult age, and so effectively <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">be </span>Chenille.</div>
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