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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Marc and I agree with how Silk is
reanimated in front of Hyacinth's casket.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>It is just that I think the same
process occurred for Horn.</span><br>
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</span>António Pedro Marques wrote:<br>
<span>But you're not at all describing it as the same.</span><br>
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<span>- Horn physically dies and is resurrected (how at all?)
with a Neighbour's spirit who acquires his personality (how,
alzabo-wise)?</span><br>
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It is exactly the same process for Silk as for Horn. <br>
Horn vacates his body. The Neighbor enters. Silk vacates his body.
The Neighbor enters.<br>
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What the Neighbor acquires is Horn's body and his brain (memories).
Horn dies and vacates. The Neighbor enters and repairs. There a two
significant passages that explains what is going on here. One is in
OBW, in which the Narrator actually tells a story in OBW about a
puppet Horn had as a child in which his mother worked the puppet
better than he could. This is foreshadowing that Horn himself will
become a puppet for a Neighbor who will complete the task he so
miserably failed at (breaking his neck before getting far out of New
Viron). <br>
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The second is the Narrator's conversation with Hound in RttW
comparing the soul to the resident of a house. That one dies when
the spirit leaves, not merely when the body is damaged.<br>
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<div><span>- The Neighbour pretending to be Horn knows nothing
about the Neighbours, so he has to interact with them as if
he were plain Horn.</span><br>
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Note that the trees where Horn is killed are small. We're talking
about a young Neighbor. When the Neighbor (a spiritual being)
combines with Horn's body (a physical entity) they become something
new. If you've read The Wizard Knight then you will remember Able's
conversation explaining this to Mani the cat -- the combination of
an eternal elemental spirit and a very temporal cat. Does Mani
regale everyone of the millennia he has spent as an elemental? No.
Because he is not an eternal elemental spirit anymore than the cat
is anymore an ordinary cat. Horn's memories are what are overriding
here; that and the Neighbor's desire to make up for a wrong. At an
important level he *does* remember and at another level he is in
conscious denial because he feels guilty for causing Horn's death.<br>
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<div><span>- The Neighbour pretending to be Horn is about to die
physically (again) and is told by the Neighbours they can
send his spirit (the Neighbour's? Horn's? </span></div>
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NO! Not Horn. Horn died in the pit. Horn's spirit has gone to the
Outsider. If Horn's body dies, then he go back to being a Neighbor
just as Mani's elemental will return to his former state when the
cat's body dies. Note that as Neighbor-Horn is dying, he's not
lamenting at the loss of his life. He's lamenting the failure of his
mission. He will have failed Horn. He will have failed to make up
for killing Horn (as he sees it). The Neighbors offer to assist
him, however. They are going to do with Silk what our Narrator has
already done with Horn. They'll send him (a spiritual being) into
Silk. I'll venture a guess that when a Neighbor enters a body in
that way, the very act repairs the body (possibly using the same
method that dream-travelers create weapons and even people out of
nothing.<br>
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See? The SAME thing that resurrected the body of Horn will resurrect
the body of Silk? <br>
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<div><span>Why one and/or not the other or both) into Silk's
body, whose 'spirit is dying'. </span></div>
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Because Horn's spirit is gone. It left when Horn fell into the pit.<br>
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<div><span>Now, I haven't met any character in the books whose
spirit actually can die, so I can only assume it is metaphor
- either Silk was about to provoke his own physical death,
or he'd walk along as a zombie, but that isn't death, nor
irrevocable (though psychiatry in the Whorl isn't better
than ours).</span><br>
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Silk slashed his wrists in front of Hy's casket. The Neighbor
entered Silk's body as Silk left it.<br>
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<span>- After Horn's and/or Neighbour pretending to be Horn's
spirit enters Silk, Silk's spirit remains dormant for long,
but if we are to believe the preceding point then that would
have happened all the same. So it's different from Horn's
assumed death at the pit.</span><br>
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Silk is not there. His memories are there because the Neighbor has
merged with his body. And the Neighbor, who makes a choice to
identify as Horn out of guilt for killing him, still recalls when he
was merged with Horn's body. He remembers Horn's memories.<br>
But Horn's spirit is gone. Silk's spirit is gone. Now Horn's body is
gone. But the Neighbor's devotion to the memory of Horn remains.<br>
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