(urth) a sincere question mostly for roy (not an attack)

[Marc Aramini]

Roy, I don't want you to leave the list over this stuff, but I do want to hear your opinion on something.  
 
Do you or do you not agree that it is likely that Horn winds up in Babbie through the mechanism of the Big Tree at the end of OBW?  You don't have to accept green is urth, but do you accept there's something fishy about the vegetation, and that a lot of narrative changes are explained by Horn leaving the body of Silk at that point (paraphrasing end of OBW: I should have said this nice thing, and that nice thing, and I caught the ball and won the game), and the way Babbie, later looking like a human and getting enraged when Horn's child is attacked, points at himself and says "huh huh huh" and that the narrator MISINTERPRETS this.
 
Don't you think this explains why in IGJ the stories about Horn on green are in 3rd person? Don't you think this explains the shift in tone from cynical Horn to positive Silk?
 
Don't you think this overcomes the objection that Babbie has tusks and that Silk misinterprets what babbie wants when he says huh huh huh because he misreads the situation?
does this not fulfill the prophecy of "a beast with three horns" even though babbie has tusks?
The mechanism is the big fishy tree.  Don't you think the trees are doing weird stuff?
 
If we can't agree on this stuff, with all your intimate knowledge of the text, what can we ever agree on?

I just want you to know I'm not murdering the text, but trying to explain things using the text, I just don't trust my narrators in every conclusion they come to.
 
Please let's talk about what we agree on and disagree on and see if we can come to any fruitful topics for further discussion there, as it isn't my intention to shut down discussion.  I posted here because I love Wolfe and wanted to talk about his work with fellow fans, not to make you feel like you have to leave.
 
At this point I feel like maybe Severian's bringing of the New Sun may not have been the most positive thing for the world.  Creepy.
 
Marc


      
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