<div>Something in the mail below struck me (and this is pure speculation) but the phrasing "son not of my body" might</div><div>be intended to specifically rule out the son of his [Tussah's] body. </div><div>
Is there any possibility for Auk [and Chenille] to be biological children of Tussah with Silk as an adopted embryo, also</div><div>purchased by Tussah? </div><div>___________________________________________________________________________________________</div>
<div>___________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:19:42 -0500<br>From: James Wynn <<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: The Urth Mailing List <<a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Silk's origin<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4E9763FE.2030306@gmail.com">4E9763FE.2030306@gmail.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed</div><p>On 10/13/2011 1:14 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:<br>> (Food for thought: it says [Chenille's] like a female AUK. How about real misdirection? Horn thinks Silk is the heir of Typhon and plants clues to hint at it when maybe it was always somebody else)</p>
<p>Well, I've always kind of suspected something like this.</p><p>1) But you still have the "son not of my body". If Auk is the *actual*<br>son and intended heir, then how is he not the son of Tussah's<br>
body--unless you interpret the term as I do.</p><p>Additionally, I've mentioned before that there is a weird pairing of<br>Silk and Auk in the story at narrative and figurative level. Silk<br>shrives Auk before the robbery of Blood's house. Auk shrives Silk<br>
afterwards...insisting he confess all he did without leaving anything out.</p><p>On a figurative level, Auk and Silk divide the acts of both Hesphaestus<br>and those of Aristeaus between them. I've often toyed with idea that<br>
Silk is a clone of Typhon and Auk/Tussah are clones of Piaton. If Auk<br>was also a clone AND the intended heir that moves the "son not of my<br>body" prophesy into a really twisted area--because Auk is the son of<br>
Typhon but only the son of Piaton after they became the same person.</p><p>Again, all this only works if you can accept (what I think is<br>inescapable) that Wolfe has sprinkled embryos all over the books and the<br>embryos are clones (many of whom, at least, clones of Typhon's family<br>
and court).</p><p>2) The second problem with Auk as the intended heir is *why didn't he<br>inherit*? Clearly Tussah expected the gods to accomplish it, so what<br>went wrong?</p>