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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
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Why is she hanging out with her own "Oreb"?</div>
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Is she? Mucor, Pike and Oreb appear at roughly the same
time and place, but no one of them is actually “with” any
other. Silk wakes up and sees Oreb hop out the window.
Then he sees Mucor by his bed. Mucor vanishes. <br>
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Just a big coincidence? <br>
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goes down and interrogates Oreb, who denies being there,
although Silk doesn’t believe him. [Silk thinks Oreb was
frightened by Mucor and jumped out the windows, dropping
down to the kitchen window below. We aren’t told whether
this is what happened or not, but it’s at least possible.]
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This is Silk's rationalization since...what else could it be? In
literature, this is called irony. The reader is expected to arrive
at meaning that the character cannot. But this is a Wolfe novel. The
meaning is unavailable to the reader until after he has read all 7
volumes. Even before SS was published, readers recognized that the
Oreb in the window was problem.<br>
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This post demonstrates how unuseful your pose is toward Wolfe's
works. It is one thing to say "I want to use only overt statements
of fact in the books to resolve puzzles" (good luck to you). It is
another thing to say, "I have not succeeded in resolving a puzzle
using my method, therefore no puzzle exists".<br>
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noises upstairs again and goes up. This time he sees
Pike’s ghost. He recognises “the aged augur” as Pike. No
staves or missing eyes are mentioned. No bird is
present.Pike is wearing a blue-trimmed calot hat – does
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Um...(as soothingly as possible) no. This is *Pike's* callotte that
Silk wore in his robbery. The Rajan leaves it behind when he
leaves. Why would you even ask such a question?<br>
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where Pike’s ghost comes from. But I am unconvinced that
he is Silk from the future. Does Pike look like Silk? He
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One very obvious conclusion is that Pike looks as Silk will look
when he is old. <br>
Alternately, an obvious conclusion following from that is that Pike
and Master Malrubius look strikingly similar.<br>
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