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

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Thu, 11/17/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011, 7:18 AM
> 
> > 
> > David Stockhoff wrote:
> > I'd still like to know if you think Horn can fade into
> the background without dying. That's my literal sense of
> it---he just gives up.
> 
> Based on my interpretation, there is no "Horn" left to die.
> His spirit left when he broke his neck in the pit (I'm
> guessing that since Seawrack and Babbie could plainly tell
> that he was dead by looking at him). His body and brain died
> on Green and were left behind. All that is left is what the
> Neighbor *remembers* of his memories and his mission. The
> Horn does not possess the Neighbor. The Neighbor is
> imitating Horn out of guilt for (as he sees it) killing him.
> It is again the whole trope of "imitating in order to
> become". To the extent that Silk possesses the Rajan, well
> that is just very hard to say. All of Silk's memories are
> there in physical form. I'm sure it can be very confusing at
> times. He seems to come to some degree of equanimity at the
> end of the story but who can tell?
> 

How do you explain the doubling of Horn, the neighbor Horn who shakes his hand?  My genetic template theorie is that Horn has been doubled there into a "double" limbed neighbor, but is resurrected himself or does not entirely die there.  If he is a neighbor, who is the neighbor Horn who shakes his hand?