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

Marc Aramini marcaramini at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 17 07:27:51 PST 2011



--- On Thu, 11/17/11, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.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, 7:23 AM
> 
> 
> --- 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?
> _______________________________________________

Also remember, when someone (not sure if it was Horn) dies on Green, it seems that the trees are weeping for his death.  They are there to transport him.



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