(urth) Like a good Neighbor

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Tue Nov 22 05:29:08 PST 2011



From: David Stockhoff 
> Gerry Quinn
>>David Stockhoff
> > >We apparently disagree, but Seawrack clearly knows corpses when she sees
> > >them.
> >She knows they don’t move if you stick a fork in them. I don’t know 
> >how you deduce she knows much more than that. She didn’t get close 
> >enough to Horn to try him out.
> >There’s no evidence that she has some special corpse-identification 
> >ability.
>What, because it's not listed next to her name in the character list?
Remember what I said about silly sarcasm?  That’s an example.  Tell me how you know she has that ability.

> >> > You've been going on about Faerie. Everyone agrees they like trees
> >> > (Mark thinks they ARE trees). The Neighbours seem to live in an
> >> > adjacent dimension. They have eight limbs. Is your question serious?
>
>> > Where is the evidence that people who hang with fairies like trees, see
>> > other dimensions, and feel like limbs are missing? The page numbers
>> > don't need to be in BSS. I have read about Faerie from age 7 through
>> > graduate school and these are not familiar to me. Show me.

>> Who cares about fairies? We’re talking about Neighbours, not fairies. 
>> Maybe they have some things in common, but we only know those from our 
>> knowledge of the Neighbours anyway. The trees, the other dimensions, 
>> the extra limbs – these are Neighbour associations. You think Horn has 
>> acquired a Neighbour soul – you’d expect any changes in his psyche to 
>> fit with what we know of Neighbours.
>> And the changes don’t seem to fit fairies much anyway, if it matters.

>You've completely backed away abandoned any pretense of discussion on 
>that point. You've left all questions unanswered and just repeat 
>yourself. You know nothing of the Neighbors.

You’re making yourself look silly now.  It’s one thing to say the Neighbours have some Faerie-like aspects.  It’s another to refuse to discuss them unless I pretend they are not Neighbours but fairies. 


> > Wasn’t that much later, after further encounters with the Neighbours? 
>> [And he was trailblazing through Blue, not Faerie. There are no 
>> indications he ever went to Faerie. That applies to the Neighbours’ 
> > dimension too, which may be analogous in some ways to Faerie but does 
> > not appear identical.]

> We've already learned you know nothing of Faerie.

Where did we learn that?  And if it were true, why would it matter?

- Gerry Quinn

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