I'm just starting my first Short Sun reread, so I may have more thoughts on this later, but wouldn't the Babbie/Pig parallel underscore the likelihood that some or all of Horn's soul winds up in Babbie? A copy of Silk's soul, after all, was in Pig. The parallel works better if both of them serve as "pen cases" for souls.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Son of Witz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">while we've been talking about Babbie,<br><br>what do people make of that Horn in Babbie concept that was thrown around years ago. Stu pointed it out to me.<br>
<br>what the hell is up with that?<br>I don't think I buy that at all, but I understand the knee bit, and the outsider calling for Babbie confounds the reading. That an the "Beast with three horns bit" What else could be a beast with Three horns. Are horns just a metaphor for souls, which, seem to number 3 in Horn, but, the prophesy is that Horn will ride that beast, not be part of that beast, so I'm not sure if you could be a horn, and be a rider. hurm...<br>
<br>When I read it, I felt Babbie mirrored (in a way) Pig. Horn had Babbie with him on one leg, and Pig with him on the other. Both are pigs of sorts.<br><br><br>~witz<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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