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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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ad naseum but as I am fairly new to the list and still<BR></DIV>
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catch up in the archives here goes: What makes anyone think<BR></DIV>
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Silk is a clone of Typhon? Id be interested in hearing the basis<BR></DIV>
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this theory and any textual evidence anyone has that points to such<BR></DIV>
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conclusion. Thanks.</DIV></DIV>
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are a good few reasons that appeal to various degrees to various people.
One is the fact that Silk is certainly a special embryo, one seeming bred to
have leadership abilities. Another is the thoughts and hints from several
places that Typhon/Pas would have planned to disembark on the colonised
planets. Those two are the main ones that tilt me towards the
concept. I know Marc also sets store by various dreams and visions of
Silk, and Kypris wanting him in particular to augment Pas. And I think
other people have other motivations for thinking that way.</DIV></DIV>
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there are problems with Silk as Typhon clone – I pointed out this particular one
before in regard to Mamelta and Rigoglio, but I just realised it applies to all
Sleepers.</DIV></DIV>
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think it’s very possible that Silk as Typhon clone was a ‘seed’ for Wolfe’s
original concept, a seed that got buried and eventually abandoned as a real
thread in the storyline. [Okay, seeds need to be buried – but they die if
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Gerry Quinn </DIV></DIV>
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