(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 56, Issue 37

[John Watkins]

You mean waaaaaaay back in Nightside?

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:37 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm.  Besides Silkhorn's ruminations,
>>> I can't see any evidence at all that Oreb would not be Oreb.
>>>
>>
>  Oh, I agree--I think he's definitely still Oreb. [snip]
>> But I think his instinct, that Oreb is another bird perfectly
>> imitating Oreb, is still supposed to tell us something about
>> the movement of souls in the book and about SilkHorn's
>> understanding of himself--I think there's a bit in
>> OBW where SilkHorn says he isn't Silk but has done his
>> best to imitate him for his entire life.
>>
>
> Well, he's not the same Oreb because he's Scylla.
> No one else seems to wonder that Oreb was able to die and resurrect
> himself. It makes me believe that someone was possessing him at that time.
> But that's just me. But that would doubly make the Oreb of most of SS
> different from the Oreb of most of LS.
>
> FWIW I think the whole speech is pointing to the fact that the Neighbor has
> been imitating Horn who imitated Silk. The whole thing harkens back to VRT
> of "The Fifth Head of Cerberus".
>
> J.
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