(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[Marc Aramini]

Seawrack doesn't say I thought you were dead, she says, you were dead.  This is why we will never ever ever read Wolfe the same way - you can dismiss these things as, Seawrack didn't know what she was takling about, while I think Wolfe is being sneaky and HORN doesn't know what he's talking about because he doesn't understand what really happened to him.  The chapter is "the end"  I take it literally, you never ever ever ever will, so we can never agree, but to deny that it's in the text is to deny the text.
 
Forever and forever and forever, the two of us must agree to disagree.

--- On Sun, 11/20/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:


From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 11:39 AM






 


 

From: Marc Aramini 
 





> Uhh ... the chapter is titled "the end" and it says "the best part of my life was oveer.
 
> The pit was its grave".  In addition, doesn't she say he was dead?  come on man 
> there are at least some disturbing deathly images.
 
That’s why I qualified “indicates” with “strongly”.
 
As for the first, he says the best part of his life was over, indicating that a worse part was to come.  And indeed, he spent days lying semi-conscious, thirsting and abandoned in a pit, then betrayed his family to the inhumi to get out, then not too long after got kidnapped to a hell planet and killed.  So it sounds like a fair assessment.
 
Seawrack thought he was dead, but she, while she may have been born human, knows nothing of humans (*except* perhaps ones that are lured by sirens and are quickly killed).
 
So yes, some deathly images.  But no reason to think he actually died then, IMO.
 
- Gerry Quinn


--- On Sun, 11/20/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:





Horn didn’t die in the pit.  There’s nothing that strongly indicates that he did and a million things that make it obvious that he didn’t.  
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