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So how does that explain the epithet Silver? It would
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Hound's (heh) explanation for "Silent Silk or Silver
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50% wouldn't you agree? Why did Wolfe even mention
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if he only meant the "silent" explantation to have
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1:01 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:</div>
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significance of Silver is obvious, surely? The full quote
is:</div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma; BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5;
font-color: black"><font face="Calibri" size="3">But
Tartaros generally turns them black and speaks. Silk said
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<div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma; BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5;
font-color: black"><font face="Calibri" size="3">or make the
window change at all, pretty often. He just looked on."</font></div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma; BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5;
font-color: black"><font face="Calibri" size="3">In contrast
to Tartaros, Silk leaves the windows the colour they are.
Which is described the first time we see one as “luminous
grey”. ‘Luminous Grey Silk’ lacks both poetry and
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Oh. I thought your method relied SOLELY on the text. Now here you
go and draw connections based on cryptic word-smithing to derive
intent from the author. Based on your model, shouldn't we expect him
to be called "Gray Silk"? "graysilk" has a certain poetry does it
not? Silver Silk sounds like a comic book super hero. <br>
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How does one cross the line between "drawing inferences from the
text" and "extending the text in a way that annoys"?<br>
Typically, the line is crossed when "he" does it, instead of "me".<br>
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