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

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/18/2011 11:16 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* António Pedro Marques <mailto:entonio at gmail.com>
> > David Stockhoff wrote (18-11-2011 14:33):
> > > On 11/18/2011 6:40 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> > >> There’s an interesting metaphor relating to a black cock killed 
> by Pike,
> > >> spraying blood over the room as if that would keep him alive. 
> That’s Horn
> > >> and his writing, I think. He searches for Silk as much as he 
> dares (though
> > >> not by sending letters, which he himself declares a farce) but if 
> he finds
> > >> him he (Horn) will be gone. When he runs out of ink he’ll be gone 
> anyway.
> >
> > > Or when he runs out of paper.
> >
> > Or Oreb's quills.
> Whatever – when he stops writing he’ll be gone. Or at least that’s how 
> I take it. The specific metaphor used (the cock’s blood) related to 
> ink, but a metaphor relating to paper or quills would have worked fine 
> too.

I meant, specifically and literally, that Horn "dies" when he runs out 
of paper.

Not ink or quills.

End of OBW.