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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=soloviev@irit.fr
href="mailto:soloviev@irit.fr">Sergei SOLOVIEV</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
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meant that the ship in the "Silhouette" looked like a sketch for <BR></DIV>
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work. For example, there<BR></DIV>
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a mutiny and mutineers, affiliated with cults, and that reminds the <BR></DIV>
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when Severian<BR></DIV>
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on the Tsadkiel's ship. The ship in "Silhouette"is a modular, loosy <BR></DIV>
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and overmonitor<BR></DIV>
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it all the time. Maybe indirectly it is an argument for many <BR></DIV>
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in Solar cycle.</DIV></DIV>
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it is only in its crew that it resembles the Whorl.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>> By the way, recently I asked myself, maybe the silhouette in the
story <BR>> is a cousin of notules?</DIV>
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<DIV>Maybe – but if so it is a much nicer and friendlier cousin! I don’t
think so, really, though – apart from being black and shadowy, it has mostly
distinct characteristics. The notule is a monster that flies and seeks
heat; the silhouette is an intelligent alien that teleports, seems less
substantial than the notule, and does not prey on humans even though it is
interested in them.</DIV>
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<DIV>Of course there is foreshadowing here too of many instances when two very
different beings combine to achieve something that neither could alone; it is
quite reminiscent of SilkHorn’s inhumi-aided astral travel, in fact.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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