<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><BR>I interpret this as a cheating ADOPTED parents answer by wolfe - his mother was the calde's mistress, that's why she kept his bust in the closet. Silk has two sets of parents, Tussah, his mother, Typhon, and Mamelta, who appear while he is, I believe, buried under a falling wall or fallen or something when the jail falls.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 12/20/10, James Wynn <I><crushtv@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv1713390031>his "ancestry". Wolfe replied that "Silk was "the son of the Calde and his mistress". That is an incomprehensible answer, knowing what we know, unless Wolfe were referring to Typhon and his mistress. It was this answer that convinced me that Tussah was a clone of Typhon.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>