Not ready to lay that out on the list yet, but maybe over lunch next week we can spin it out. ;)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:06 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="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Jordon, what was that you were telling me about the Corn genetics that had a more metaphoric angle? I can't quite remember, yet I seem to think there was more resonance for me than this literal stuff.<br>
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~witz<br>
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>-----Original Message-----<br>
>From: Jordon Flato [mailto:<a href="mailto:jordonflato@gmail.com">jordonflato@gmail.com</a>]<br>
>Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:54 AM<br>
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>Subject: Re: (urth) Blood Pudding (was Neighbors as Faeries)<br>
><br>
>You know, I just read this part, and I can't find any reference to a Tree<br>
>being in there with him, much less anything close to resembling a tree<br>
>eating his corpse. A Neighbor comes in (he thinks it a spider or<br>
>something). As a matter of fact, I just reread that, and there is not<br>
>mention or even hint of a tree(s) being in the pit with Horn, so I don't<br>
>know where this comes from. Can you cite anything?<br>
><br>
>I do see the Neigbors associated with Trees on some level, but not as<br>
>projections. The Neighbors as for permission to visit this world, and<br>
>indicate they have left this world to go to another. How is that connected<br>
</div>>to the Trees? The trees obviously don't leave (no pun intended). Are the<br>
<div class="im">>trees Spirit Antennae or something which allow the Neighbors to transmit<br>
>themselves back to Blue?<br>
><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">>I don't see nearly as direct a connection between the trees and the<br>
>Neighbors as some seem to, although I will admit there is some possible<br>
>connection, no doubt.<br>
><br>
>But there is no tree in the pit. Not from textual references anyway.<br>
><br>
>RE: Hybridization. YES! This is the one thing which is making me<br>
>seriously consider that a neighbor did something siginficant in this respect<br>
>to Horn in the pit. It fits thematically.<br>
><br>
>On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Brian Lovely <<a href="mailto:brian@studiobl.com">brian@studiobl.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Remember that hybrids are a big part of the story. That long bit with<br>
>> Silk/Horn, the farmer, and how to cross corn wasn't there for nothing.<br>
>> Plus, in the books, transferring blood transfers more than...well, blood.<br>
>> The blood confers some of the donor's being, creating a kind of hybrid.<br>
>><br>
>> Also, the neighbors resemble and/or are heavily associated with trees.<br>
>> When<br>
>> Krait is dying on Green, the trees are described in very human terms. The<br>
>> tree in the pit with Horn was a Neighbor who ate Horn, or consumed his<br>
>> corpse, or somehow otherwise hybridized with him.<br>
>><br>
>> -Brian Lovely<br>
>><br>
>> Jordon Flato wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I would agree that chasing the stag, falling in the Pit (which was in the<br>
>> midst of a classic faerie circle of the ruins) represented a crossing over<br>
>> of sorts, but I don't think it necessitates Horns death. That is a turning<br>
>> point in the narrative for a number of reasons, not the least of which is<br>
>> that it brings Horn directly to the attention of the neighbors (without, I<br>
>> would posit, necessitating a transfer of 'souls' into Horn).<br>
>><br>
>> I grant it is possible, but I just don't see it yet.<br>
>><br>
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