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

[James Wynn]

>> James Wynn wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> Marc Aramini wrote:
> How do you explain the doubling of Horn, the neighbor Horn who shakes his hand?  My genetic template theorie is that Horn has been doubled there into a "double" limbed neighbor, but is resurrected himself or does not entirely die there.  If he is a neighbor, who is the neighbor Horn who shakes his hand?

When Neighbors touch they "share blood".  Just as when the Rajan shakes 
hand with the enemy colonel and he can suddenly hear Seawrack's singing.
When the "other" Horn says "I am Horn, too" the narrator says he 
realized he was being paid a great compliment. He's not "doubled" 
because the Neighbor was already there. It is only Horn's identity 
(maybe his memories) that they have shared.