(urth) Mucor and Oreb in the manse

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Tue Nov 29 06:24:42 PST 2011



From: James Wynn 

> [to Roy] You are right that Mucor *could* have possessed Oreb, but then
> 
> The tricky part has always been two-fold:

> 1) Silk's rationalization about how Oreb could have flown out the window 
> is a classic Wolfean signal that that is NOT what happened.

> 2) This leaves open the big questions:
>      a) What was Oreb doing there in the first place?
>      b) Why did he lie?

> The second question is a biggie. Silk made it clear that he wouldn't 
> punish Oreb for being up there. An explanation that leaves that dangling 
> is barely an explanation for me.

But if Mucor possessed Oreb, then you do have an error in Silk’s rationalisation as required – and you also have an explanation for why Oreb lied (or forgot).

- Gerry Quinn

 
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