(urth) Babbie
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 07:29:42 PDT 2009
>Witz: I really think your theory is interesting, but I think it needs the
>justification for the Neighbor being a greenbuck.
There are casual hints about this on the level of the one Stuart Hamm
offered, but I don't think it ever gets any clearer than OBW (HB) pg 272
"'My name is Horn.' I offered him my hand.
He took it, and this time I felt his hand and **remembered hard**, and
seemed to
be covered with short, stiff hairs. Beyond that I will not say. " (emphasis
mine)
What he remembers here is being a greenbuck. It doesn't sound like a human
or a tree or a spider. Also, the Raja states that he feels personally
responsible for Horn's death, and the greenbuck is simply the only candidate
around when Horn dies:
"We will sail tonight...Would you be willing to make my farewells to Hoof
and Hide?...I've been dreading it--in a sense, I have killed their father,
though the Outsider surely knows that I never meant him the least harm. I
don't want to have to face his sons..." --RTTW (HB) pg 411
Yes, he "in a sense" killed their father by merely accepting that he died
and that HE is not HIM. But his answer implies that he feels he caused Horn
actual, unintended harm which could not refer to accepting his death.
> and wow, I didn't know about that whorlmap site. I'll read up there.
Thanks. I admit I've let it go dormant as I've toiled on a more expansive
project that simply did not fit into a short essay. For example, when I say
that the Long Sun narrative overlays the myth of Aristaeus, it is not easy
to offer a short explanation for why he did that. One day...one day...
J
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