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

[James Wynn]

On 11/19/2011 9:22 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> I don't understand what's the harm for your explanatory framework of having Horn's and Silk's spirits still there.

It depends on what you mean by "spirit". For many people a person's 
"spirit" or "soul" are mere systemic arrangements and typically that is 
the way Wolfe presents them as well. Thus Typhon is truly ON the Whorl 
in the form of Pas; Severian can be copied, the original destroyed, and 
*he* continues. The Short Sun is different. On the Whorl, the Rajan 
speaks to Hound about the soul in purely classical terms...as a man 
living in a house.

One could imagine the Neighbor /possessing/  Horn...both of them in 
Horn's body at once. But then, when Horn's body is destroyed, the whole 
thing becomes very cumbersome when the Neighbors send him to Silk. Why 
would they send both of them to Silk? It is far simpler to imagine one 
simple mechanism. Horn dies. The Neighbor enters. Silk dies. The 
Neighbor enters.