From: "Jim Henley" <jhenley@nas-corp.com>
Subject: (whorl) RE: The Revelation: John Clute to the Whorl list
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:26:02 

:> -----Original Message-----
:> From: Nicholas Gevers [mailto:vermoulian@yahoo.com]
:> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 2:11 PM
:>
:> Earlier today I asked John Clute to clarify or
:> substantiate his speculation as to Horn being an
:> inhumu; this is his reply:
:>
:> --- John Clute wrote:
:> >
:>   1) My guess that Horn/Silk _might_ be an inhumu, as
:> well as
:> > sharing other conditions of being as his Corridor
:> > branches, is the kind of
:> > tentative shot you lay into the dark in the midnight
:> > middle of a Wolfe
:> > novel.

This will sound pissy of me, but why the _fuck_ does Clute turn the
privately-acknowledged "shot in the dark" into the publically-proclaimed "it
is 'reasonably clear' that Horn/Silk is himself an inhumu?"

By gum, it's more annoying even than people whingeing about the covers!

Best,


(Heated) Plasma


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