(urth) Confusing passage

[Marc Aramini]

No, Silk's personality is coming through here in Horn, confusing Hoof for his feelings for "Horn".  The [sic] is the narrators, daisy et al, putting that that is how Horn wrote it.

--- On Tue, 9/18/12, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:


From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Confusing passage
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 3:27 AM






 


 

From: Lee Berman 
 
 

> From On Blue's Waters, Ch. 5 section 6:


>    Even Hoof and Horn [sic], who must just be entering young manhood now

>    will someday be as old as Marrow and Patera Remora.....in fifty years,

>    Horn and Hide [sic] may well be dead....These words, which I pen with

>    so little thought- or hope- or expectation- may possibly endure long

>    beyond that, endure for two centuries or even three...


> 
I am confused by this. I could guess the first [sic] is a way of

> 
forshadowing that Horn's self-identity will come into question later.

> 
But what about the second [sic]? Is Hide's identity also to come into

> 
question? Or does the second [sic] also refer to Horn in the clause?

 

I say typo.  It makes no sense as written, and the names are easily confusable.  Reading the passage, I didn’t notice it, so it’s not implausible that author and proof-readers didn’t either.

 

- Gerry Quinn

 

 
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