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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=crushtv@gmail.com
href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>> Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR>> > I don’t see anything elaborate about
the theory that Mucor is tracking Silk – in </DIV>
<DIV>> > fact it’s made pretty clear from subsequent events in the
text. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> Gerry, Gerry, Gerry you know quite well that you have postulated
theories regarding </DIV>
<DIV>> this far more elaborate than that. <BR><BR>*********<BR>At 7:51am
Gerry wrote:<BR><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>> Or
maybe Mucor found Silk by possessing a bird, then released it to <BR><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>> appear in astral form while
the bird flew away. What about Pike who <BR><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>> comes along later? A ghost
sent by the Outsider, perhaps, signalling <BR><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>> that Silk (who was sent, or
so he believes, to help Pike) is on the <BR><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>> right
track.<BR>****************</DIV>
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<DIV>Actually, insofar as I have a theory, the above is pretty much it.
The only thing wrong with it is it tries too hard to explain everything,
especially the bird. But the idea of her possessing a bird to search for
him is actually quite neat, I think. Does she ever possess animals?</DIV>
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<DIV>Mucor *is* definitely tracking and monitoring Silk – I think that’s
established by her appearance in the tunnels. So her arrival, at least, is
totally in line with this. And remember, *everything* in the first two
books takes place over a few days and nights – small wonder if things get busy
sometimes.</DIV>
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<DIV>Pike as ghost/vision sent by the Outsider, or as Crane would put it,
another of Silk’s blood vessels popping... that works for me too. Silk
thinks he’s been sent to aid Pike. Pike smiles encouragingly, and fades
away.</DIV>
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<DIV>So yes, I’m entirely serious, although Mucor possessing the bird is just a
cute idea.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>Additionally:<BR>************<BR><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>> If you want a wacky theory
that’s less wacky than the above, consider <BR><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">> </FONT>> that the technology to
project ghosts is known to exist on the Whorl. <BR>***************<BR><BR>>
Of course, the theory that "Pike's ghost" was generated by technology is the one
</DIV>
<DIV>> line of inquiry that Wolfe has personally emphatically asserted is not
the case.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ah, I didn’t know that. So Wolfe has spoken on the subject?
What does he say exactly?<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>> > Your theory involves a 43 year old one-eyed time travelling
Silk who looks </DIV>
<DIV>> > exactly like a 70+ year old Pike and wears his hat. You
don’t think that’s elaborate?</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>> I've presented a theory based on the existence of a "second" Oreb
at Silk's </DIV>
<DIV>> residence that night and the evidence that Rajan can Time-travel.
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<DIV>And one implication of that theory is what I stated above, no?</DIV>
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<DIV>> You have </DIV>
<DIV>> presented alternate explanations that even YOU won't own. This kabuki
</DIV>
<DIV>> theater we play is getting boring.</DIV>
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<DIV>While I’m far from certain of the theory above (the first one, not the
techno-ghost, which would work much better if it happened in Rose’s room, which
has a glass), I do ‘own’ it to the extent that I strongly believe it’s correct
about Mucor, I think it’s the most reasonable interpretation of Pike so far, and
I don’t really know about the bird, but I like the Mucor possession idea.
Silk only saw something behind a curtain that looked like a bird flying out the
window, then he thought of Oreb. He’d have thought of Oreb if he saw any
large bird.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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