From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Conjectures [SPOILER]
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:15:51 +0000

on 2/11/01 11:45 PM, mattjaq@telocity.com at mattjaq@telocity.com wrote:

> (7) At the end, Silk is sorry because he says that he killed Hoof and Hide's
> father. This is very mysterious. Is this simply because he feels it was his
> fault that he didn't orginally take the landers in BotLS with the other
> people, and as a result people felt the need to return to find him? Or is it
> because he had some other plan of reviving Horn?

He says he killed Horn "in a sense," which is somewhat different.  I took
him to mean that by recovering his own identity, he destroyed the
Horn-persona; or else that his reviving "spirit" was somehow responsible for
driving out Horn's spirit.

--Adam


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