(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[David Stockhoff]

That is at least plausible.

Why do you think a death here harms the story? How do you explain Horn's 
newfound abilities?

On 11/20/2011 2:47 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
> And because she thinks that Horn is dead, she is afraid to come
> because all her undersea wild instincts may awake. She is afraid
> that she may want to eat Horn. She is too afraid to check whether
> he is alive. And she wants so much to be like "normal" humans.
>
> Sergei Soloviev
>
>
> Marc Aramini wrote:
>> Also, she says, "dead things are food", which is kind of where my 
>> eaten thing comes in, with sharing blood to commune with neighbors, 
>> eucharist, etc.
>>
>> --- On *Sun, 11/20/11, Marc Aramini /<marcaramini at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 11:22 AM
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --- 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, 11:18 AM
>>
>> *From:* James Wynn
>> <http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=crushtv@gmail.com>
>> > Gerry's mistake (one of them) is thinking that all the
>> Neighbors must be acting
>> >
>> in concert, always with larger ultimate plan in mind. If we
>> were talking about
>> >
>> a human character, he wouldn't make that mistake.
>> I don’t think that about Neighbours and I don;t know where you
>> think I have suggested it. Like humans, they clearly do often
>> act in concert.
>>
>>
>> >
>> Just because a young faerie has acted to resurrect Horn out of
>> personal guilt
>> >
>> does not mean he stopped to plan beyond that decision.
>> I can’t understand how you entertain this hypothesis. Are you
>> saying Horn was dead or alive when he noticed a Neighbour
>> bending over him? If the Neighbour waited for him to die, or
>> actively killed him, he’d have had time to notice that Horn
>> was stuck in a pit. Maybe he thought humans could fly.
>> Also, if “Glittering eyes and sharp faces came and went”
>> refers to Neighbours, there must have been more than one of
>> them. Surely they would have dissuaded their comrade, or
>> helped him if they could not dissuade him. Or just reminded
>> him of what he was.
>> 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. - Gerry Quinn
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