(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/21/2011 11:42 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote (21-11-2011 16:31):
>> On 11/21/2011 10:05 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>> *From:* James Wynn <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> From OBW:
>>>> "Once, as I lay there at the bottom of the pit,...
>>>>
>>> > Gerry wrote:
>>>> > > It happened *after* Horn came to himself and sat up.
>>>
>>> > Gerry, that's not what he wrote. He explicitly says, "Once, as I lay
>>> there at the
>>> > bottom of the pit". The point in the story is undetermined but it 
>>> is BEFORE
>>> > he sat up. It straightforwardly the opposite of your reading.
>>> You’re forgetting the *thirst*. It was when he came to himself and 
>>> sat up
>>> that he noticed he was thirsty. When the long-nosed man sent him on his
>>> astral voyage, he told Nettle he was dying of thirst. So the long-nosed
>>> man must have come after Horn came to himself and sat up.
>>> He lay there both before and after sitting up that time. What else 
>>> would
>>> he do to rest? He could not climb walls or lick dew for days on end. So
>>> “once as I lay there” tells us nothing. But the thirst tells us the
>>> sequence of events.
>>
>> Gerry, are you saying a man can't be thirsty twice before he has a 
>> drink?
>
> His thrist should refer to internal bleeding. Whether it is before or 
> after the Neighbours start repairing him cannot be deduced from it alone.

Sure. However, he also lay there for days. If he was physically alive, 
he was thirsty for that reason.