<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>No dia 2011/11/20, às 14:36, "Gerry Quinn" <<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>> escreveu:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><div style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma">
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="entonio@gmail.com" href="mailto:entonio@gmail.com">António Pedro Marques</a> </div></div></div>
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This is similar to Gerry's refutation about the fact that the Rajan claimed to
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something about the Mother's worshippers but not /everything/.</div></div>
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you know very well, that was just intended as one of many examples of how he
seems to know essentially diddley squat about the Neighbours. </div></div>
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read as far as the chapter ‘Krait’, the idea that he was replaced by a Neighbour
in the pit seems bizarre to me. Just consider the most obvious point: he
needs the help of an inhumu to get out! And to get it he betrays his wife
and family. Unless you think this Neighbour is a spy for his race and a
rather nasty piece of work, or a very impulsive and impulsive creature with no
conscience, how do you explain this?</div></div>
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‘glittering eyes’ he sees while lying semi-conscious, and the ‘long nosed man or
spider’ that he apparently sees with his eyes closed are presumably
Neighbours. [Are we supposed to think of Severian? Doesn’t make much
sense for him to be there though.] The long-nosed man seemingly uses a
device on him that sends him on a short astral excursion. I think it is
likely that this device *changed* him in some way by granting him or causing him
to develop certain psychic abilities (they probably developed as a consequence
of his temporary exposure as well as subsequent experimentation and other
events). But he is still Horn. </div></div>
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the Neighbours were present and are essentially benevolent, it seems they could
not help him in the obvious way, i.e. by getting him out of the pit, as Krait
did. But this ties in very well with the notion that they are half-in,
half-out of our dimension, and are limited in their physical abilities (see also
the corpses in the sewer on Green).</div></div>
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that’s my working theory so far. I don’t disagree with James’s assertion
that the Neighbours have something of Faerie about them, but Horn ain’t no
changeling.</div></div>
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Gerry Quinn</div></div>
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