<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-style: normal; display: inline; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; "><blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">From OBW:<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="2">"Once, as I lay there at the bottom of the pit,...</font></div></blockquote>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; "> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>Gerry wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-style: normal; display: inline; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; ">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: small; ">It happened *after* Horn came to himself and sat up.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Gerry, that's not what he wrote. He explicitly says, "Once, as I lay there at the bottom of the pit". The point in the story is undetermined but it is BEFORE he sat up. It straightforwardly the opposite of your reading.</div></body></html>