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<pre wrap="">* Silk's fathers sound like Lemur
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Could you expand on that? </pre>
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When Silk meets his parents in Mainframe, Horn writes:<br>
<blockquote>"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>
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<pre wrap="">I was thinking something related. If we
agree that Silk's father ought to be someone named, the question
arises who, other than Typhon, it could be - and a possibility that
struck me was Lemur. </pre>
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If you haven't picked up on it already, I suspect it is not an
either/or choice.<br>
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<pre wrap="">We don't know how old Lemur is, and given that he
knows such a lot about Typhon, one wonders if he has been around since
the launch. I don't think we know Lemur's eye colour, unfortunately,
and his hair by the time Silk meets him is white.
One thing that worries me, though, is this. One reason for thinking
Silk's father is not Typhon is that it seems unlikely the Outsider
would choose Typhon as a messenger. But even less, you might think,
would he choose Lemur.
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I see it differently. Wolfe says the best villians fall just _short_
of being a hero.<br>
From another POV, and for some people, I think he _was_ a hero. It's
very relative. <br>
What was every other leader on Urth like at the time?<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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