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

[Marc Aramini]

Just wanted to say I meant in the scene at the end of OBW near babbie we have a good-bye, the rest of those details are later in astral travel, obviously.  sloppy sentence, sorry.

--- On Thu, 11/17/11, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:


> 
> Just fading away is fine, but in that scene where he says
> good-bye, we have a reference to Babbie, a non-animal
> conglomeration spirit for Babbie, Babbie trying to
> communicate huh huh huh style and pointing at his "tusk",
> and Babbie getting angry and attacking someone who attacks
> one of Horn's sons, in addition to the prophecy "I see you,
> Horn, riding a beast with three horns."
> 
> Horn leaves the building, and all that seems to point to a
> very clear destination. This is textually supported by the
> opening character notes, from a chapter entitled Horn's book
> to the name listing that gives horn as the protagonist in
> the first volume but not for the following ones.  It
> also makes sense in why the sections written in IGJ do not
> use entirely first person to relate the stories of Horn on
> Green.  And if Silk killed himself, the sections in
> Rttw are third person because Silver Silk, the narrator,
> wasn't in his body.  That was the now gone Horn. 
> 
> 
> The good-bye, the "i caught the ball", the presence of the
> tree, the change in prayer habits, the proselytizing, the
> shift in tone, the 3rd person narration places, all point to
> Horn being in Silk's body until the end of OBW, then
> leaving, but leaving Silk to imitate him as he imitated Silk
> in his youth.  I really can't see it otherwise.
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