From: dd@Adobe.COM (David DiGiacomo)
Subject: (whorl) Re: RTTW (SPOILERS)
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:29:29 

>From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph@earthlink.net>
>
>The person we have been thinking of as Horn in Silk's body is actually Silk
>with Horn's memories.  Silk could not admit to himself that he was Silk
>because that would mean admitting that Hyacinth was dead.  The Hyacinth
>passage enabled Silk to accept this.

I would just add to this that the Neighbor told Horn "I can send your
spirit into someone else" - spirit, not memories.

In retrospect, Fava's afterlife was a good clue.

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