(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/22/2011 6:26 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> A lot of Wolfe heroes are pre-determined...over-determined...to 
> succeed against all who stand against them. Severian, Latro, Able. 
> Eventually, Horn becomes a character like that. But the original Horn 
> (I say) was not. He was a man with a good, brave heart who was as 
> subject as anyone to catastrophic misfortunes. It is a rather hopeful 
> story seen that way. 

Yes. He was helped after he set off, not before. He's recursive in a 
different dimension from the others.