From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) merging
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 10:14:34 

on 4/5/01 7:54 PM, maa32 at maa32@dana.ucc.nau.edu wrote:

> Adam said:
>> 
>> Do you have any references for 2?  Yes, Horn clearly knows that he died on
>> Green, that he is in a different body, and that everybody thinks he's Silk.
>> But I don't remember any passages indicating that he has drawn the obvious
>> inference that he is in Silk's body (prior to the talk with Remora).  Nor,
>> apart from the Pas-on-Blue statement, do I recall him saying anything that
>> shows he knows that Silk's spirit has merged with his own.
> 
> What about those explicit errors in On Blue's Waters where he calls his son
> Horn and then concludes that he caught the ball, he won the game?  How much
> more explicitly can Horn communicate that he has merged with Silk?

While I don't have the book with me, so can't comment on this particular
passage (which was the subject of discussion earlier), I would say that
passages like these are the Silk in Silkhorn popping up, outside of Horn's
conscious control, rather than the Horn in Silkhorn signaling that he is
aware of Silk's presence.

--Adam


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