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

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Nov 20 05:48:54 PST 2011


On 11/19/2011 9:51 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> No dia 19/11/2011, às 15:09, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  escreveu:
>
>> On 11/19/2011 9:31 AM, James Wynn wrote:
>>>>>>   What is Pas but Typhon's memories.
>>>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>>> ??? Personality, of course! Weren't you just a while ago claiming that that were where chems' personalities had come from, real people but without their memories?
>>> Sure. But, investigating the connection between memory and identity the common thread in Wolfe's fiction--the question of _who_ we are aside from our physical minds.
>> Seems to me that whereas spirit, mind, and body are clear divisions, that between memories and persona is more subject to authorial "whim" (i.e., necessity). But that's not to say Wolfe violates it. I can see the resurrected Horn as Neighbor personality + Horn memories. That would explain why he doesn't start acting Neighborly. His body seems to have changed as well.
> That's all very well, but the Rajan acts typhonly, presumably because he is Silk and Silk has something of Typhon.

Naturally.



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