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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">David Stockhoff</A>
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<DIV><BR>> > Now, how do you explain how a time travelling one-eyed Rajan
looks <BR>> > like a 70+ year old Pike?<BR><BR>> Not that hard. There
is a somewhat counterintuitive situation here in <BR>> that (1) Silk at 23
apparently does not look remarkably like old Pike, <BR>> but Silk at 43 does.
That does require a little work.<BR><BR>> But anyone whose hair is white at
43 ... I mean, come on. Silk did not <BR>> have time to shake his hand and
have a drink with him. He was there for <BR>> a moment.</DIV>
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<DIV>He looked into “the aged augur’s smiling face” and recognised him as
Pike.</DIV>
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<DIV>He even recognised Pike’s hat. Why is the Rajan wearing Pike’s
hat?<BR><BR>> Why would Wolfe have had the Rajan's hair turn white if he
didn't mean <BR>> for him to look like a white-haired man?</DIV>
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<DIV>Lots of peoples hair turns white. Silk looked into his face, not at
his hair. In fact, he was wearing a hat. </DIV>
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<DIV>Did I mention it was Pike’s hat?</DIV>
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<DIV>One more thing: Silk thought he saw Oreb, and later he thought he saw
Pike. Everyone seems agreed that he can’t have seen both. Which one
did he see *better*? I vote for the one he saw when the light was
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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