From: "Josh Levitan" <josh_levitan@hotmail.com>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v011.n011
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 10:03:41 PDT

Adam Stephanides wrote:>
>David Wells wrote:
>
> > I concur with others that Horn knows that he's in Silk's body, but 
>denies
> > "being Silk" because
> >         - basic honesty. He isn't 100% Pure Silk(TM)
> >         - neither he nor the fragment of Silk's spirit within him 
>actually
> > want to try to live up to the legendary status which Silk has attained
> > (The latter is, arguably, rather a selfish motive, although maybe I am
> > unfair in ascribing it to him).
>
>But, as I've said before, the problem isn't just that he denies being
>Silk.  It's that he never mentions being in Silk's body, and does things
>which suggest that he doesn't know where Silk's body is.

This seems to be another example of Wolfe's (and Horn's) disingenuousness, 
like when Horn says that Hide/Cuoio "looks familiar."  Yeah, he looks a lot 
like a son he used to have.

Narwhal
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