(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 56, Issue 37

[James Wynn]

>In this reading of SS I've been looking for NeighberHorn clues,
>and just don't find anything at all that seems viable.
>It's a nifty theory, but it just seems to be a huge stretch to me,
>and I've been trying to pay close attention.
 >Have you gone back and reread it lately to look for more evidence?
>I'd be interested to follow that.

Not yet, but it's on my list of things to do. I'm currently working straight 
through from FHoC, Peace, Devil in the Forest, etc etc etc. Still, it will 
be very hard to overcome "I just don't see it".

1) Horn was resurrected from the dead after three days even though Seawrack 
and Babbie were not in any doubt that he was dead. I doubt I'll find more 
compelling evidence than that.

2) Resurrected Horn shakes hands with a Neighbor who declares that he 
himself is Horn.

3) The Raja flat out denies that he is the fellow (whose name he forgets) 
that wore a ring and died on Green and was transferred to a body on the 
Whorl. Yet asserts (a lie) that in fact he is Horn (who died in the pit).

Incidentally, (not that it proves anything, I guess) in interviews Wolfe 
refers to the narrator of SS as the Raja. Not Horn. Not Silkhorn.

>And wait, why am I not remembering when Oreb died in LS?

Chapter 2 of Nightside. Silk bought Oreb to sacrifice him to the Outsider. 
But just before he could, Oreb dropped dead (a bad sign).  And then suddenly 
*he's alive again*! Some people say Oreb was only faking which strikes me as 
very similar to what some say about dead Horn in the pit.

J.