From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Why the Whorl left early
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:55:26 

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Nicholas Gevers wrote:

> One point: I think that GW intends us to understand
> that the Whorl leaves very quickly after Silk and Co
> return to it after RTW. Reason: Silk-in-Mainframe and
> the corporeal Silk don't want Pas descending to Blue
> with Mainframe and all, for the reasons Silk gave
> Remora and because the Whorl needs Pas and Mainframe
> where they are. Thus: emergency departure, far swifter
> than M'to would have thought possible.

But if Silk-in-Mainframe is enough in charge that he can get the Whorl to
leave early, he's probably enough in charge to prevent "Pas" from escaping
to Blue.

But then I'm of the opinion that "Passilk" implies that the only Pas left
in Mainframe is a Pas that is mostly controlled by Silk's downloaded
persona anyway.

-Rostrum


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