From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce@gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) RTTW questions
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 18:41:07 

Clearly I need to reread it all again.  Whether "it all" means back to
SHADOW or starting at OBW, I'm not sure yet.  I reread Long Sun this
summer, so its fairly fresh, but it will necessarily mutate under the
pressure of Short Sun.

One point:

Remora's deadly truth:

"Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel,
  the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground."

At first made me think, somehow, that the Seawrack/Hyacinth confusion
has some deeper meaning than the (slipping mask of "Horn" on
Silk/Horn's soul speaking) aspect.  Can it be that, in some sense,
we're meant to grasp some other identification between Seawrack and
Hyacinth?  Seawrack can't, I would think, be Hyacinth in any sense
like Silk is Horn/vice versa, but I think there's a metaphorical
connection here, but I can't quite get a grasp on it.  Note how
Seawrack reacts to Silk, though she has known only Horn.  I don't
think this is just (A) Mother's orders or (B) the Horn in him or even
(C) the fact that everybody trusts Silk.


--
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
--
Alex David Groce (agroce+@cs.cmu.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department
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