(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[Marc Aramini]

I was just reading that and I realized the short stiff hairs there perfectly match the description of Babbie Hoof gives later when he brushes against his short stiff hairs in astral travel at the end of RTTW. Interesting.  

--- On Mon, 11/21/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
> To: urth at urth.net
> Date: Monday, November 21, 2011, 8:54 AM
> 
> >David Stockhoff: For that matter, it is really easy to
> imagine the Green Man 
> >(Man of Green?) in his natural habitat, behaving very
> much like a faun. He's not 
> >quite a fairy, as those people are beings of power and
> pomp. Fauns have 
> >none. 
>  
> Yes. But it sounds like you have a good sense of how
> Dionysus, Pan and fauns
> of the Greeks evolved through the Roman, spread across
> Europe and eventually became 
> such characters as Oberon, Titania and Puck for a certain
> Elizabethan playwright.
>  
> >Neighbors do seem to be a little of both. I'm skeptical
> of conflating 
> >them, but fauns are plainly an important literary
> forerunner to the Sun 
> >Cycle.
> 
> Skeptical you should be. That's what Wolfe wants. Horn
> describes the Neighbor's hand
> as hard and with short stiff hairs. Then he says, "I will
> say no more". Meaning there
> is more to say. But if Wolfe says it, it will render his
> work ridiculous, in his own
> eyes.
>  
> I mean, what if Wolfe had said "the hand had a resemblance
> to a cloven hoof, the eyes 
> had a vertical slit pupil. Short horns sprouted behind the
> ears and there was a bleat to
> his voice as he sang a greek hymn and drank from his jug of
> wine"?
>  
> That's the sort of thing that might make Gerry happy but
> Wolfe wouldn't have made such 
> avid devotees of readers such as you and me and many others
> if he did stuff like that.
>  
> >Gerry Quinn: Interesting that you admit for the first
> time your history of personal attacks 
> >on me, rather than accusing me of what is your
> technique, not mine.  Why the change?
>  
> I detect a note of pain. My apologies Gerry, for any
> cutting, hurtful remarks I may have made. 
> From your approach to addressing the posts of others, I
> thought that was your preferred means 
> of communication. I thought you were a warrior who relished
> battle on all levels. I will try 
> hard to be more aware of your sensitive, vulnerable side in
> the future.
>  
> >I shan’t comment further.
>  
> Good luck with that.    
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