(urth) Blood Pudding (was Neighbors as Faeries)

Son of Witz sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Fri Mar 20 13:06:09 PDT 2009


Jordon, what was that you were telling me about the Corn genetics that had a more metaphoric angle?  I can't quite remember, yet I seem to think there was more resonance for me than this literal stuff.

~witz

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jordon Flato [mailto:jordonflato at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:54 AM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) Blood Pudding (was Neighbors as Faeries)
>
>You know, I just read this part, and I can't find any reference to a Tree
>being in there with him, much less anything close to resembling a tree
>eating his corpse.  A Neighbor comes in (he thinks it a spider or
>something).  As a matter of fact, I just reread that, and there is not
>mention or even hint of a tree(s) being in the pit with Horn, so I don't
>know where this comes from.  Can you cite anything?
>
>I do see the Neigbors associated with Trees on some level, but not as
>projections.  The Neighbors as for permission to visit this world, and
>indicate they have left this world to go to another.  How is that connected
>to the Trees?  The trees obviously don't leave (no pun intended).  Are the
>trees Spirit Antennae or something which allow the Neighbors to transmit
>themselves back to Blue?
>
>I don't see nearly as direct a connection between the trees and the
>Neighbors as some seem to, although I will admit there is some possible
>connection, no doubt.
>
>But there is no tree in the pit.  Not from textual references anyway.
>
>RE:  Hybridization.  YES!  This is the one thing which is making me
>seriously consider that a neighbor did something siginficant in this respect
>to Horn in the pit.  It fits thematically.
>
>On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Brian Lovely <brian at studiobl.com> wrote:
>
>> Remember that hybrids are a big part of the story.  That long bit with
>> Silk/Horn, the farmer, and how to cross corn wasn't there for nothing.
>> Plus, in the books, transferring blood transfers more than...well, blood.
>> The blood confers some of the donor's being, creating a kind of hybrid.
>>
>> Also, the neighbors resemble and/or are heavily associated with trees.
>>  When
>> Krait is dying on Green, the trees are described in very human terms.  The
>> tree in the pit with Horn was a Neighbor who ate Horn, or consumed his
>> corpse, or somehow otherwise hybridized with him.
>>
>> -Brian Lovely
>>
>> Jordon Flato wrote:
>>
>> I would agree that chasing the stag, falling in the Pit (which was in the
>> midst of a classic faerie circle of the ruins) represented a crossing over
>> of sorts, but I don't think it necessitates Horns death.  That is a turning
>> point in the narrative for a number of reasons, not the least of which is
>> that it brings Horn directly to the attention of the neighbors (without, I
>> would posit, necessitating a transfer of 'souls' into Horn).
>>
>> I grant it is possible, but I just don't see it yet.
>>
>>
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