From: "Roy C. Lackey" 
Subject: Re: (urth) reflected light
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:01:18 -0600

Marc Aramini wrote:
>>Anyway, perhaps when Silk grabs the ball, the whorl slows down from FTL or
light speed and then enters the normal time stream - perhaps his re-entry
into
the universe causes the brain abnormality or heightened consciousness that
allows Silk a communion with the Outsider - he has re-entered time - perhaps
Pas planned it so that when the ship slowed down that a cloned embryo would
respond by being enlightened and unconsciously rise to power and enact the
Exodus that had been foretold.<<

It seems to me that this a case of the tail wagging the dog. Pas, rather
Typhon, *planned* Silk's enlightenment? Typhon, Urth's baddest bad boy, had
a heart-to-heart with the Outsider and arranged for the Outsider to
enlighten a future clone of himself? And the Outsider went along with it?
Then Typhon had a religious relapse and went back to being the beloved self
that Sev knew and killed?

-Roy


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