(urth) Horns abilities

[James Wynn]

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>     > On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:40 AM, larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:biglar1984 at gmail.com>>
>     > wrote:
>     > > Can anyone tell me why Horn is able to get inside and
>     > change the
>     > > stories being told in In Greens Jungles?
>     > > _______________________________________________
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>     > From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>>
>     > Subject: Re: (urth) Horns abilities
>     > To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net
>     <mailto:urth at lists.urth.net>>
>     > Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 6:23 AM
>     > Dream travel is time travel. Remember
>     > Pike's ghost?
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>     Marc Aramini wrote:
>     My position, too.  For sure.  and I rather like the little doll in
>     the dreams as mucor teaming up with fava spirit (or whoever is
>     dead). Dream travel is definitely time travel.
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On 10/26/2011 10:04 AM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> What's the deal with it being semi-physical?  Is it 'out of body' even 
> though you can physically influence stuff in the place you 'go' to?  
> It's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen (because it's not as 
> simple as time travel on one hand or visions on the other, etc.).  And 
> Wolfe's introduction and development of it narratively (especially in 
> In Green's Jungles) is one of the most jaw-dropping, mind-bending 
> experiences I've had in reading.
> -DOJP

They are disembodied spirits (ghosts, if you will) with bodies fashioned 
from "dream-stuff". Thus they can die in dream-travel and their bodies 
remain. Their bodies that they left, are not killed in that case, but 
are left senseless and souless. If your sleeping body dies in dream-travel,

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"Do you recall how, when you were hardly more than a boy, I taught you 
the art by which we flesh sons from dream stuff?"
[...]
"For though he did not know why, being of the stuff of dreams he was
drawn to her; and she, whose eyes held starlight, to him."
Chapter 17, Claw of the Concilliator

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