Oreb faints in Nightside right as Silk is about to sacrifice him to the Outsider. Silk assumes he's dead, discards the body and returns, after his adventure at Blood's, to find Oreb fluttering about. <div><br></div>
<div>It's a weird scene. Oreb definitely appears to be dead and definitely appears to return, and it's weird that an augur, who kills animals with regularity, would be fooled by a mere faint.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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And wait, why am I not remembering when Oreb died in LS?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jordon Flato <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jordonflato@gmail.com" target="_blank">jordonflato@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>In this reading of SS I've been looking for NeighberHorn clues, and just don't find anything at all that seems viable. It's a nifty theory, but it just seems to be a huge stretch to me, and I've been trying to pay close attention.</div>
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<div>Have you gone back and reread it lately to look for more evidence? I'd be interested to follow that.<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM, John Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.watkins04@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.watkins04@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left:1ex;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:#ccc 1px solid">You mean waaaaaaay back in Nightside?
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:37 PM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left:1ex;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:#ccc 1px solid">Hmmm. Besides Silkhorn's ruminations,<br>I can't see any evidence at all that Oreb would not be Oreb.<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left:1ex;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:#ccc 1px solid">Oh, I agree--I think he's definitely still Oreb. [snip]
<div><br>But I think his instinct, that Oreb is another bird perfectly<br>imitating Oreb, is still supposed to tell us something about<br>the movement of souls in the book and about SilkHorn's<br>understanding of himself--I think there's a bit in<br>
</div>OBW where SilkHorn says he isn't Silk but has done his
<div><br>best to imitate him for his entire life.<br></div></blockquote><br>Well, he's not the same Oreb because he's Scylla.<br>No one else seems to wonder that Oreb was able to die and resurrect himself. It makes me believe that someone was possessing him at that time. But that's just me. But that would doubly make the Oreb of most of SS different from the Oreb of most of LS.<br>
<br>FWIW I think the whole speech is pointing to the fact that the Neighbor has been imitating Horn who imitated Silk. The whole thing harkens back to VRT of "The Fifth Head of Cerberus".<br><font color="#888888"><br>
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