From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@ungames.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) RTTW spoilers, the Silken tongue
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:02:27 

At 10:18 AM 2/15/01 -0800, Mantis wrote:
>The narrator must know that he isn't "Silk" (whether this is "oldSilk" or
>"mainframeSilk" or "litSilk," or some combination thereof, doesn't matter
>at the moment) but he must have some inkling that the Silk-he-is-not exists
>somewhere else (mainframe, for example, the place where the dead folk go).

Yes. Mucor told him so. 

>I think that the narrator knows he is in Silk's body, 

I think he doesn't, not for a very long time. The conversation between Pig
and the shopkeeper underscores that. (Assuming it's a reliable
reconstruction, and that Pig and the shopkeeper understand the protagonist,
which of course they don't....) 

Do you have any evidence to indicate that, at the time he lectures to
Olivine, "the narrator" had decided/realized/admitted to himself that he
was in Silk's body? 


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