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

[Gerry Quinn]

From: James Wynn 

> Now, I want remind you that I now firmly believe that the Mucor 
> that stood over Silk in "Lake of the Long Sun"--the Mucor he sees 
> the night he sees both an astral Oreb and "Pike's Ghost" is actually 
> the Mucor that Horn visited in OBW and asked to psychically go to 
> the Whorl and find out where Silk is. This Mucor stood over Silk 
> that night because she had met the Rajan in Time-traveling in the 
> dream-travel and he took her with him to Silk's room at that very 
> night. It is the Rajan who tells her to tell Horn not try to come to 
> "where he is". 

This may seem a minor nit, but the Mucor who stands over Silk is described as “skeletally thin”.  On Blue Horn notes that she is still thin, but not as thin as she was.  Of course maybe she always appears skeletal in asomatous travel, but one might expect that her image would reflect her psychic state, as with dream travellers, and her state clearly improves somewhat.

A bigger issue is that even if you believe the Rajan can travel in time, it’s surely a stretch that he can grab people who are psychically travelling in some other mode, and bring them back in time.  Furthermore, how would Mucor get back to her own time?  The Rajan doesn’t seem to be around, unless he is Pike.

Mucor does nothing when she appears anyway.  Surely the most economical explanation is that she is just hovering around Silk as usual?  Wolfe might have put her there to set up the fact that she is watching him later on in Lake when he is lost in the tunnels.

You could even argue that Silk might have dreamed her presence, but I think it’s more likely that she was there.

*Again, an argument of a kind you dislike: but if Wolfe wanted to write in these super-hidden explanations and leave subtle clues, he had a great opportunity to indicate that the Mucor Silk sees here is not so thin as usual.  He didn’t take it.  It’s not a complete killer like the gravity issue (if the difference in gravity between Blue, Green and the Whorl was great, Wolfe would have *had* to mention it), but still you have to ask why, if Wolfe intended this to be a future Mucor, he didn’t take up the perfect clue option staring him in the face.  Sometimes absence of evidence really is evidence of absence, IMO. 

- Gerry Quinn






 
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