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<A title=crushtv@gmail.com href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A>
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<DIV>Gerry Quinn-<BR><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Maybe I am being
over-simplistic, but my impression is that Silk's spirit is dying, but not
his body (as the Neighbour says). As you put it, a mourning ritual
gets out of hand, but not fatally to Silk's body. Conversely, Horn is in the
opposite situation. His body dies, while his spirit flies to Silk's
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What happens Silk? I think his
spirit remains dormant in his old body, now occupied by Horn's
spirit. (Aspects of Pas seem to be there too; although
uploading is distinct from possession, I suspect a certain amount of spirit
mingling has taken place here too.)</FONT><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><FONT
size=2><FONT face=Arial>Even if your reading of "one whose spirit is dying" is
the one intended (and it might well be), it comes to the same thing. We have
examples of dying spirits in The Book of the Short Sun (Jane offered a good
one. There are others.) If Silk's spirit was dying, then it would need another
spirit to animate the body. If Silk's body was animated by Horn's spirit,
there's no reason to believe it would heal Silk's dying spirit because the
"wound" it had suffered was Hyacinth's death. HORN's problem was not that his
spirit was dying but that his life was dying. There is no justification in the
story for that spirit to subsequently die while Silk's lives.<BR><BR>If Silk's
spirit dies, his body needs Horn's spirit. And that's what I argue
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>You say there's no justification in the story...
but then what do you think happens at the end? My impression is that Silk
returns somehow. At the least, what remains at the end seems not to be
Horn - it might be some kind of merger of Horn and Silk I suppose. [I
can't say I like the ending of RttW, it's all very Wizard of Oz... but as I said
I guess I need another read or two to be very sure of my opinions.]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Horn took some bad beats - and weren't there
indications before now that he had some suicidal tendencies? As to why
Silk's spirit resurrected, I don't know. Maybe he got a nudge from the Pas
part of him ;-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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