(urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

[António Pedro Marques]

No dia 16/11/2011, às 02:49, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu:
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>>> So, I doubt that the "Good-bye" text is a true farewell. But still it troubles me.
>> 
>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>> It's a farewell because he wrote it when he thought he'd be killed soon. It needn't trouble you.
> 
> You might be right. But I don't really think you appreciate why it bothers me. Why doesn't the Rajan say good-bye to Seawrack, or Pig, or any of the other people he has met on his travels? Why only to Horn's family? I can think of two reasons, but I'm not inclined to pick them up unless I can comfortably dispose of Marc's substantial explanation: We are being signalled that (in some way) Horn is dying at this point in the story.

There's the pedestrian explanation that Horn's family are the ones he had set out to rejoin. The others were completely past at that point.