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

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/16/2011 3:11 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>
> --- On Wed, 11/16/11, António Pedro Marques<entonio at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> You do have in mind that the BNS only started being written
>> in Gaon, was all
>> written by the same hand (except for the chapters by Hide
>> and the others)
>> and that the events described were not simultaneous to the
>> writing, namely
>> that whatever happened in that island with Horn was written
>> long afterwards,
>> and nothing special happened to the writer between writing
>> it and the
>> chpater following it?
>>
> no, no.  The part I am talking about at the end of OBW IS SIMULTANEOUS TO THE ACTION of writing.  Horn in Silk's body is running out of paper and says good-bye, sits under a tree, comes to finish out the ream that runs out before he begins writing again in IGJ.  This is the "present" of OBW: the rajan of goan is writing and details his own adventures in addition to the past, then mysteriously most of IGJ switches to present tense, with the Horn sections told mostly 3rd person (because ... he isn't still mostly Horn)

I feel the need to point out that this is largely a matter of 
degree---it's not necessarily an absolute matter. Clearly the Rajan 
keeps all of Horn's memories he needs. During the Horn parts, it is 
logical that SH writes negatively about Sinew, in a way that Silk never 
would. Silk begins to emerge first in the Rajan parts, also reasonably. 
And Silk clearly returns at the end of OBW, where Horn has retired if 
not disappeared.

So, first, I don't see entirely incompatible points of view here.

Second, though SH does seem to be majority Horn through most of OBW, 
then majority Silk at the end, is it necessary that this occur by 
subtraction? Can a personality simply go to sleep? Maybe Horn is just 
quietly listening to Seawrack in his headphones while Silk narrates IGJ. 
Lord knows that's all he wants.