From: "Roy C. Lackey" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Silk's appetite
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:10:46 -0500

From: David Duffy 


>I seem to recall someone earlier pointing out that Silk was always very
>abstemious, as befits an augur.

Silk was a kid fresh out of the seminary. He was a novice as an augur,
hadn't had time to inculcate the poor-as-a-church-mouse stereotypical
appetite of same. His eating habits must date from childhood, about which we
are told very little.

Silk's abstemiousness is, to some degree, an affectation. When his mind is
otherwise engaged he can--and does--eat normally, as at Inclito's house.
(IGJ, 71)

-Roy


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