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

[James Wynn]

>> James, you and I see the story very differently.   I think Horn 
>> sacrifices himself at the end of oBW when he goes into babbie.
>
> Yeah, I get that. But I don't see how Horn even _could_ have chosen to 
> do that unless he were already far more than human. Anyway, I think 
> Horn had already been absorbed into Babbie in the same way Rose was 
> absorbed into her hands. The hus is a quite peculiar plot element, 
> though. Unlike the other indigenous lifeforms of Blue, it's really not 
> clear to me how his species came to get it's name. What Murcor 
> intended in sending Babbie with Horn is important, I think.

It does say something that we approach Wolfe so similarly and yet come 
away with so variant conclusions.
I suppose that is why he wrote the stories like that...so that only I 
would be right. ;-)