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

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/16/2011 11:36 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> > > ag
>> ain, an argument of a kind you dislike: but if Wolfe wanted to
>> > > write in these super-hidden explanations and leave subtle clues,
>> > > he had a great opportunity to indicate that the Mucor Silk sees
>> > > here is not so thin as usual.
>
> > When you can point to the clear, textual explanation of what
> > is happening with the Horn-Babbie confabulation, or how the Rajan gains
> > the power of dream-travel, or how the Rajan ended up in the 
> grandmother's
> > tale, or who is the barnacled man Horn encounters, or the nature of
> > Seawrack, or what the shattered glass structure is that Horn and 
> Seawrack
> > encountered on the island, or why Silk decided that he and Sand were
> > "brothers" in some sense based on the vague similarity of their names...
> > then you will certainly have cause to argue "Well, if that's what Wolfe
> > intended, then why didn't he just *say* so?"
> This is a completely different situation. In your examples we have 
> Wolfe putting in obvious anomalies that need clearing up. In the 
> examples I’m talking about, the anomalies are absent where, if a 
> (generally unlikely) theory were valid, they would be expected to be 
> present.

I have tried to show that this is not the case at all. At least not in 
terms of Mucor's weight. whatever that means in an astral body.

What reason did present-Mucor have to be there?