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

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Nov 20 07:37:19 PST 2011


On 11/20/2011 10:34 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> No dia 20/11/2011, às 14:56, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  escreveu:
>
>> On 11/20/2011 9:50 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>> No dia 20/11/2011, às 13:53, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>   escreveu:
>>>
>>>> On 11/19/2011 10:01 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>>>> No dia 19/11/2011, às 21:03, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>    escreveu:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/19/2011 3:54 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>>>>>>> I was reading shakespeare today and the term huswife came up, and I realized it was just a form of house: I think Babbie is like a spirit house.
>>>>>> Considering the references to houses, and that Wolfe originally wanted to use the name "hushog" (I don't know who pointed that out), meaning house-pig, I'd say that case is nailed shut. And it strengthens your idea that What was left of Horn went into Babbie,
>>>>> It gets me a bit miffed that people keep repeating this in disregard to the fact that Hide takes the time to mention the Rajan looks more like Horn in (some) dream travels than in real life.
>>>> So why don't you point out the passages? I haven't gotten there yet.
>>> I'll give you some more time, then.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I guess I really don't understand when people get miffed at all. If you have counter-evidence or a counter-pattern in response to an identified pattern, voice it. Saying "evidence X strengthens theory Y" doesn't mean nothing else exists. I never said all of Horn is gone at the end of OBW and in fact have stated repeatedly that I think he is not all gone.
> Marc thinks he's all gone and James thinks he was never there (fsvo 'was': apparently, sometimes James makes a point of saying he isn't there, others he makes of point of saying he is there in a way and it's all a bit cloudy anyhow).

Yes, the arguments are hard to separate and the text is vague. I am not 
sure of all the differences between a mind and a soul and a spirit, or 
between all-god-all-man and half-god-half-man. We need to gather all the 
evidence....



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