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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
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On 11/22/2011 8:29 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR>> > *From:* David Stockhoff
<mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net><BR>> > *> Gerry Quinn*<BR>>
> *>>David Stockhoff*<BR>> > > > >We apparently
disagree, but Seawrack clearly knows corpses when <BR>> > she sees<BR>>
> > > >them.<BR>> > > >She knows they don’t move if you
stick a fork in them. I don’t know<BR>> > > >how you deduce she
knows much more than that. She didn’t get close<BR>> > > >enough to
Horn to try him out.<BR>> > > >There’s no evidence that she has some
special corpse-identification<BR>> > > >ability.<BR>> >>
What, because it's not listed next to her name in the character list?<BR>>
> Remember what I said about silly sarcasm? That’s an example. Tell me
<BR>> > how you know she has that ability.<BR><BR>> Gerry, no sarcasm
is silly if it gets an extremely stubborn person to <BR>> pay a tiny bit of
attention. Seawrack tells us. Read the text you adore <BR>> so much. And by
the way, YOU invented "special corpse-identification <BR>> ability" just to
be a sarcastic prick. I make no argument for its <BR>> specialness---the bar
is much lower than you pretend.</DIV></DIV>
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tells us she has that ability? I remember her telling us that Horn was
dead, and apparently being wrong. I don’t remember her saying she has the
ability to unerringly tell when somebody is dead, from twenty feet.
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wasn’t being sarcastic when I referred to a ‘special corpse-identification
ability’. I was paraphrasing your assertion that she “clearly knows
corpses when she sees them” in the context of the situation in which she
supposedly knew (and was, at least ostensibly, proved completely
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<DIV><BR>> > > >> > You've been going on about Faerie.
Everyone agrees they like trees<BR>> > > >> > (Mark thinks
they ARE trees). The Neighbours seem to live in an<BR>> > > >>
> adjacent dimension. They have eight limbs. Is your question <BR>> >
serious?<BR>> > ><BR>> > >> > Where is the evidence that
people who hang with fairies like <BR>> > trees, see<BR>> > >>
> other dimensions, and feel like limbs are missing? The page numbers<BR>>
> >> > don't need to be in BSS. I have read about Faerie from age 7
through<BR>> > >> > graduate school and these are not familiar to
me. Show me.<BR>><BR>> > >> Who cares about fairies? We’re
talking about Neighbours, not fairies.<BR>> > >> Maybe they have
some things in common, but we only know those from our<BR>> > >>
knowledge of the Neighbours anyway. The trees, the other dimensions,<BR>>
> >> the extra limbs – these are Neighbour associations. You think Horn
has<BR>> > >> acquired a Neighbour soul – you’d expect any changes
in his psyche to<BR>> > >> fit with what we know of
Neighbours.<BR>> > >> And the changes don’t seem to fit fairies much
anyway, if it matters.<BR>><BR>> > >You've completely backed away
abandoned any pretense of discussion on<BR>> > >that point. You've left
all questions unanswered and just repeat<BR>> > >yourself. You know
nothing of the Neighbors.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>> > You’re making yourself look silly now. It’s one thing to say
the <BR>> > Neighbours have some Faerie-like aspects. It’s another to
refuse to <BR>> > discuss them unless I pretend they are not Neighbours
but fairies.<BR><BR>> YOU are refusing to discuss the text. As usual. Because
you have no idea <BR>> how X can "be" Y and yet not "be" Y in a work of
fiction. I can't help <BR>> you there.</DIV>
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<DIV>You are really getting off on Lee’s latest mantra about how two plus two
can really be five. There are Neighbours in the books, not fairies.
If they share certain characteristics with fairies like interdimensionality and
an affinity for trees, well and good. I’ll discuss those characteristics
in context. I will also mention characteristics they don’t share with most
fairies, like having eight limbs (yes, there are probably some eight-legged
goblins in legend somewhere, but does that get us anywhere?:).</DIV>
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<DIV>Very well then. Fairies have wings. Horn doesn’t feel he is
missing his wings either.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>>> > > Wasn’t that much later, after further encounters
with the Neighbours?<BR>> > >> [And he was trailblazing through
Blue, not Faerie. There are no<BR>>> >> indications he ever went to
Faerie. That applies to the Neighbours’<BR>> > > > dimension too,
which may be analogous in some ways to Faerie but does<BR>> > > >
not appear identical.]<BR>><BR>> > > We've already learned you know
nothing of Faerie.<BR>> > Where did we learn that? And if it were true,
why would it matter?<BR><BR>> Books, books, books, my friend. Read them and
come back to the <BR>> discussion you have fled because the big kids are
using concepts you <BR>> don't understand.</DIV>
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<DIV>The only word that has any application there is “kids”.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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