(urth) Dionysus

[James Wynn]

>> " 'My name is Horn.' I offered my hand.
>> He took it, and this time I felt his hand _and remembered it_ . It was
>> hard, and seemed to be covered with short, stiff hairs. Beyond that I
>> will not say."[oBW HB 272]
> Roy-
> I don't see why you attach such importance to that quote. It has nothing to
> do with what happened in the pit. It is a direct reference to what Silkhorn
> wrote on page 267, about the first moments after the Neighbor woke Horn and
> told him to get up and come with him:
>
>      " 'Come with me,' he said, and he helped me to stand up, grasping both
> my hands while lifting me under the arms. I ought to remember how his hands
> felt, I am sure - but I do not. My mind was on other things, perhaps.
>      "He strode off through the trees, then turned to me and took my hand
> again to make certain that I was following him."

I don't know why you can't see this is an important quote. First of all, 
HORN is up-front about holding information back here. In a first person 
memoir, that's a _big_ deal. And the scene involves memory...which is 
obviously also significant in a memoir. It's a big, big deal.

Even your reading of the quote is a strange one. But I say, by default 
HORN/Rajan can't or chooses not to remember his Neighborly past. This 
moment gives him access to those memories although he chooses to reject 
them.

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