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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dave Tallman -- Does this mean we won't see your Hyacinth/Fava theory this weekend after all? I hope you'll have time to post it. I'm also hoping you have a good explanation for the coach dream on pp. 94-95 of RttW.</div><div>
</div><div>"Fearing that Fava might be angry, I looked behind us; she had become a dead doll, with Chenille's knife protruding from her ribs... I explained to Mora that I was taking us to Blue, but she had become Hyacinth."</div><div>
</div><div>I realize this is just a dream, but why did Mora become Hyacinth rather than Fava? Why did Fava become Orpine?</div></pre>
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They are not just dreams, but, no, I don't have an answer for this
one, because it is tied up in the significance of Orpine -- who is a
key centerpiece in Silk's enlightenment. And I don't understand
Orpine. I'm pretty certain Hyacinth and Mora are not to be
*directly* identified (in the way I am saying Fava and Hy are). But
Orpine as connected to Hyacinth has always...well, not made
*sense*...but she and Hyacinth are the two women in caskets that
Silk stands over. And there is a knife at hand as Silk stands over
Hy's coffin. So I see that there is (likely) an intended referred
connection. In a way, Hy *does* become Orpine. And Silk stands over
Fava's corpse too.<br>
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WHAT I DO UNDERSTAND (or think I do) is that this dream is connected
to the dream Silk has at the beginning of "Lake of the Long Sun." In
that one, Orpine has Mucor's face and she is "clawing" at the dagger
in her side. And there too, Hyacinth sits beside him in the
deathcoach. And, voila, Silk gives his old, bloodstained
handkerchief --the one that covered Orpine's face --- to Hyacinth
"to cover her nose and mouth". So here we again have a connection
made between Hy and Orpine. But I don't claim to know what it means.<br>
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I'm not denying the significance of these dreams. But, I believe
that, whatever the true meaning we ultimately come to understand,
Fava will still be Hyacinth. There are just too many other expected
actors and pointers. Fava being Hyacinth doesn't answer every open
important mystery. It doesn't explain Mother or the connection
between Seawrack and Hyacinth either.<br>
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