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

[James Wynn]

>
> David Stockhoff wrote:
> I'd still like to know if you think Horn can fade into the background 
> without dying. That's my literal sense of it---he just gives up.

Based on my interpretation, there is no "Horn" left to die. His spirit 
left when he broke his neck in the pit (I'm guessing that since Seawrack 
and Babbie could plainly tell that he was dead by looking at him). His 
body and brain died on Green and were left behind. All that is left is 
what the Neighbor *remembers* of his memories and his mission. The Horn 
does not possess the Neighbor. The Neighbor is imitating Horn out of 
guilt for (as he sees it) killing him. It is again the whole trope of 
"imitating in order to become". To the extent that Silk possesses the 
Rajan, well that is just very hard to say. All of Silk's memories are 
there in physical form. I'm sure it can be very confusing at times. He 
seems to come to some degree of equanimity at the end of the story but 
who can tell?