(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[Marc Aramini]

What gets me is the points where the narrators ponder if they understand what they are saying: "I had to think about what I myself had just said ... it is possible no one understands" that leads me to believe they mysteries are soluble, not just open ended mysteries.  " I have given only scattered hints in spite of all my efforts"
 
Those are metatextual statements that the structure is indicated through those scattered hints.  "not my words, not my words"

--- 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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