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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">But the daughter of
Tussah's body Chenille has dark eyes, and her body type is
one more like Auks, according to Horn. I can't see that
Tussah is a clone of Typhon at all, because Silk is stated
to have a runner's physique and look nothing at all like
Chenille in that last comparison scene, as if they are not
genetically in any way shape or form related.</td>
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Despite the reference in the characters section, I've never been
happy with the idea of her as a NATURAL "natural daughter". Nothing
gets drummed in over and over in the text as the mannish quality of
Chenille. But as the natural daughter of Tussah it would be unlikely
that she would have blue eyes if her mother's eyes were brown. <br>
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"> The text does
nothing to undercut this, indeed showing the calde's face
as one of his parents, and another face as the other. </td>
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I had this conversation with Roy at one point. He waved it away with
"My reading is different." Let's go back to the text in Chapter 9 of
"Calde":<br>
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"Two men and two women. He blinked and stared and blinked again.<br>
"Oh, Silk! My son!" She was in his arms and he in hers, melting in
tears of joy. "Mother!" "Silk, my son!"<br>
The whorl was filth and stink, futility and betrayal; this was
everything--joy and love, freedom and purity.<br>
"You must, my lad." A man's voice, the voice of which Lemur had been
a species of mockery. Looking up he saw the carved brown face from
his mother's closet.<br>
"We're your parents." He was tall and blue-eyed. "Your fathers and
your mothers."<br>
The other woman did not speak but her eyes spoke truth.<br>
"You were my mother," he said. "I understand." He looked down at his
own beautiful mother. "You will always be my mother. Always!"<br>
"We'll be waiting, Silk my son. All of us. Remember."<br>
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Clever, clever, Wolfe. There's no intimation of what the other face
looked like. Only ONE father speaks. This is a categorical error of
the kind that is so common in Wolfe. He does it all the time: A
someone speaks. and then there is a new line in the text and the
person speaks again. It's unusual in books general but it is very
common in Wolfe's writing and this is not the only place it happen
even in The Book of the Long Sun. But people assume one talks and
then the other ONLY because they believe the faces are different. We
only have the description of ONE of the fathers' faces. <br>
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">There are a lot of
reasons Tussah can't be a clone of Pas, and not the least
of which would be that Councillor's recognition, like
Lemur, whose body is supposedly built after SOMEONE Silk
sees in his parental vision - probably not the Calde,
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If Lemur expected people not to notice that he had had a whole-body
prosthesis then his chem body and voice must have been made to look
like his original (just as Potto's body was chubby and hardly
god-like). In fact, there is plenty of evidence that that is the
case. The fact that Silk's father had Lemur's voice is another can
of worms that doesn't bother me at all--I have a ready explanation,
but I don't think anyone else does.<br>
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">I think Lemur's
appearance is certainly modeled after Pas.<br>
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Heh heh heh. <br>
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u+16b9<br>
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