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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
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> Now, I want remind you that I now firmly believe that
the Mucor </div>
<div>> that stood over Silk in "Lake of the Long
Sun"--the Mucor he sees </div>
<div>> the night he sees both an astral Oreb and "Pike's
Ghost" is actually </div>
<div>> the Mucor that Horn visited in OBW and asked to
psychically go to </div>
<div>> the Whorl and find out where Silk is. This Mucor
stood over Silk </div>
<div>> that night because she had met the Rajan in
Time-traveling in the </div>
<div>> dream-travel and he took her with him to Silk's
room at that very </div>
<div>> night. It is the Rajan who tells her to tell Horn
not try to come to </div>
<div>> "where he is". </div>
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<div>This may seem a minor nit, but the Mucor who stands
over Silk is described as “skeletally thin”. On Blue Horn
notes that she is still thin, but not as thin as she was.
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Gerry Quinn wrote:<br>
It's certainly worth bringing up, but it is hardly a deal breaker.<br>
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The quote from OBW:<br>
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The witch had been described to me as being very thin. She was, but
not as thin as she had been in the Caldé’s Palace and on the lander
afterward—not as thin as the truly skeletal young woman I recalled.
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She was said to be tall, too. The truth is that she is not, although
her thinness and erect carriage, and her short, ragged skirt,
combine to make her appear so. <br>
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Everyone who describes her to Horn says shes is "very thin". Horn
notes that she is not as thin as the "truly skeletal woman" she was
before which implies that she is still skeletally thin. At the time
Silk sees her in his room, he has only seen her once previously in a
darkened room. <br>
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I had previously said that I knew of no instance in which Mucor did
not travel as a visible disembodied spirit. But I remembered that
there is one time. On the gondola in "Exodus from the Long Sun".
However, note how she leaves:<br>
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***************<br>
Mucor had begun to fade. For a second or two a ghostly image<br>
remained, like a green glimmer upon a pool<br>
****************<br>
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Now note how she does it in Silk's room:<br>
********<br>
she faded to mist and was gone.<br>
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Later in a few minutes "Pike's ghost" will fade in to a silvery
mist, exactly the same way. <br>
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<div>A bigger issue is that even if you believe the Rajan
can travel in time, it’s surely a stretch that he can grab
people who are psychically travelling in some other mode,
and bring them back in time. Furthermore, how would Mucor
get back to her own time? <br>
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How does anyone get back during astral travel? They wake up.<br>
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<div> The Rajan doesn’t seem to be around, unless he is
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A flying Oreb is there. Of course he's Pike.<br>
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<div>Mucor does nothing when she appears anyway. Surely the
most economical explanation is that she is just hovering
around Silk as usual? <br>
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This is the exposition that Mucor encountered the Rajan and not
Silk. It is simply not true (as is implied by what Mucor reports to
Horn) that Horn coming "to where [Silk] is" would place them in any
danger. However, for Horn to come to where the Rajan is...that would
be perilous. <br>
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*Again, an argument of a kind you dislike: but if Wolfe
wanted to write in these super-hidden explanations and leave
subtle clues, he had a great opportunity to indicate that
the Mucor Silk sees here is not so thin as usual. </div>
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Yeah. I really really hate this kind of argument. It's worse than
lazy. It's an argument someone would only reasonably make if they
had never read a Wolfe novel. When you can point to the clear,
textual explanation of what is happening with the Horn-Babbie
confabulation, or how the Rajan gains the power of dream-travel, or
how the Rajan ended up in the grandmother's tale, or who is the
barnacled man Horn encounters, or the nature of Seawrack, or what
the shattered glass structure is that Horn and Seawrack encountered
on the island, or why Silk decided that he and Sand were "brothers"
in some sense based on the vague similarity of their names...then
you will certainly have cause to argue "Well, if that's what Wolfe
intended, then why didn't he just *say* so?"<br>
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J.<br>
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