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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">Lee Berman</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> > James Wynn: Incidentally, I really like Lee's identification
of Silent Silk and<BR>> >Silver Silk with Silenus and Silvanus. That's an
excellent catch, and I'm kicking<BR>> >myself I didn't see it
first.<BR><BR>> Heh. Thanks for remembering that James. Yeah, I was familiar
with the Silenus and<BR>> Dionysus connection but the silent/silver thing got
me motivated to dig a little<BR>> and find Silvanus.</DIV>
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<DIV>Right. Some woodland god who shares one syllable and no etymology
with the English word silver, and has at best a tenuous connection with
Dionysus. Of course that must be the explanation! Why worry about
the quite plausible derivation of Silent Silk and Silver Silk (for a single god,
not two) that Wolfe gives us in the text? Only jealous, negative people
bother with the text!</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>> But the deepest layers of an onion are not more real or true
or necessary than the<BR>> more superficial layers. The same is true about
people and works of art, imho. An<BR>> author adds depth and richness to
his/her work by creating at multiple levels so I<BR>> don't see why the
audience perceiving and appreciating those levels should be seen<BR>> as
debasing it.</DIV>
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<DIV>I see a problem when a continual torrent of supposed ‘levels’ are proposed
by readers who don’t appear to recognise the need for or even validity of any
methodology for assessing the difference between a genuine correspondence or
some spurious ‘link’ dreamt up out of random noise while trying to confirm some
other highly questionable theory.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>