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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=decanus1284@gmail.com
href="mailto:decanus1284@gmail.com">Larry Miller</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; TEXT-DECORATION: ">On
11/23/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry@bindweed.com> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; TEXT-DECORATION: ">> I
don't recall Silk's theorising. But there *is* actually a connection<BR></DIV>
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between Mucor and Pike: she is his granddaughter, even if fewer realise
it<BR></DIV>
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than Wolfe expected. Could that be the purpose of Pike's ghost?<BR></DIV>
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theorising on Mucor and Pike occurs near the end of Lake Ch. 9.<BR></DIV>
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Mucor is not actually Bloods daughter thus there is no familial<BR></DIV>
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to Pike.</DIV></DIV>
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yes – I have read it now. Interesting that Silk no longer mentions Oreb,
probably writing him off as appearing only in his imagination. Instead he
thinks that Mucor’s appearance somehow made Pike’s possible, and that she,
rather than Pike, made the noises upstairs afterwards.</DIV></DIV>
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think Silk is right, and that the connection may be that she is Pike’s
grandaughter. True, she is not genetically related to him, but in Long Sun
Wolfe clearly treats adoptive relationships as similar in significance to
genetic ones, so I don’t think that matters.</DIV></DIV>
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certainly refers to Mucor as her grandaughter, and she is even less genetically
related to Mucor than Pike is!</DIV></DIV>
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Pike’s ghost is a clue set by Wolfe to point towards Blood being Pike’s son.
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