Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:29:53 -0400
From: Christopher Culver 
Subject: (urth) Re: Silk/Malrubius

Craig wrote: 
> In an interview, GW mentions a possible connection
> between Silk and Master Malrubius (I can't locate the
> interview at the moment). I was wondering if anyone
> else had determined how/why this connection would be
> made. Why, for example, would an aquastor (as I recall
> Malrubius is) Silk be used to communicate with
> Severian?

I assume that Severian's incidental visions of Malrubius were actually
of Silk, but the machine which saves Severian from the Ascians chose to
create an aquastor of Malrubius because Sev's visions of
Malrubius-really-Silk had made such an impression on him.

Christopher Culver

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