(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[Gerry Quinn]

From: James Wynn 
    From OBW:
    "Once, as I lay there at the bottom of the pit,...
> Gerry wrote:

  > > It happened *after* Horn came to himself and sat up.


> Gerry, that's not what he wrote. He explicitly says, "Once, as I lay there at the 
> bottom of the pit". The point in the story is undetermined but it is BEFORE
>  he sat up. It straightforwardly the opposite of your reading.

You’re forgetting the *thirst*.  It was when he came to himself and sat up that he noticed he was thirsty.  When the long-nosed man sent him on his astral voyage, he told Nettle he was dying of thirst.  So the long-nosed man must have come after Horn came to himself and sat up.

He lay there both before and after sitting up that time.  What else would he do to rest?  He could not climb walls or lick dew for days on end.  So “once as I lay there” tells us nothing.  But the thirst tells us the sequence of events.

- Gerry Quinn


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