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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">It depends on what
you mean by "spirit". For many people a person's "spirit" or
"soul" are mere systemic arrangements and typically that is the
way Wolfe presents them as well. Thus Typhon is truly ON the
Whorl in the form of Pas; Severian can be copied, the original
destroyed, and <b class="moz-txt-star"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>he<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
continues. The Short Sun is different. On the Whorl, the Rajan
speaks to Hound about the soul in purely classical terms...as a
man living in a house.
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David Stockhoff wrote:<br>
I'm skeptical that LS and SS can work together with two different
theories of the soul. Are you sure this is not simply an attempt
to warn the reader that multiple possessions are the bread and
butter of SS?
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Well, Silk's afterlife experience might be an alternate model of the
soul. Additionally, "Soldier of Sidon" reveals that Wolfe is aware
that the Egyptians maintained simultaneous multiple definitions of
"soul". As is noted there, the Egyptians recognized that each man
had five souls.<br>
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There is no example of multiple simultaneous possession on the
Whorl, but we do have that pattern in the Bible so it should be
considered conceivable. But then I need a method for the Neighbors
to resurrect Horn and (without any narrative establishment)
transport his human soul to Silk. Additionally, although Marc has a
mechanism for the Neighbors to resurrect Horn, he can't explain why
Horn was resurrected and no one else. <br>
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One could imagine the Neighbor <i class="moz-txt-slash"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>possessing<span
class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i> Horn...both of them in
Horn's body at once. But then, when Horn's body is destroyed,
the whole thing becomes very cumbersome when the Neighbors send
him to Silk. Why would they send both of them to Silk? It is far
simpler to imagine one simple mechanism. Horn dies. The Neighbor
enters. Silk dies. The Neighbor enters.
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To me that seems more complicated than a new Horn being created
that is all Horn and all Neighbor. Once the new Horn is created,
it's a single entity. Where's the complexity?
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There isn't any except that I have to first buy in 100% to Marc's
theory that humanity of Urth was devoured by trees to create the
Neighbors. 1) I don't find the evidence for that compelling. 2) I
can't find any thematic support for it to buttress it (the eucharist
analogy doesn't get me there). 3) Even if I *did* accept the theory,
I would still not be able to explain how Urth became Green (which is
the primary value of Marc's theory). In fact, it would still imply
that Urth is *Blue* which was the conclusion Marc originally came to
when he developed the theory. When Wolfe told him "No! No! No! Urth
is Green" Marc changed planets, but *he didn't alter the theory that
put Urth on Blue*. Wolfe's comment should have made him re-evaluate
that.<br>
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