(urth) Horns abilities

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 08:56:43 PDT 2011


On 10/26/2011 10:51 AM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> 'There is simply no other reasonable explanation, given the context, 
> for Pike's sparkly disapperating ghost'
>
> Does 'reasonable' here = naturalistic?  Are we not allowing for any 
> 'real' (traditionally construed - i.e. spirits of the dead) ghosts in 
> Wolfe's cycle?  (Or is there something about the context you mention 
> that requires a non-supernatural account in this particular case?)
> -DOJP
>

Not give the subsequent appearance of astral Oreb.

Otherwise, I'd accept the appearance as a Gothic-style ghost, although a 
weird one. When such ghosts appear they don't typically wave like a 
tourist at Disneyland. Nor disappear like James T. Kirk being beamed up.

J.




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