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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=crushtv@gmail.com
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> If we put these two things together, ghosts – spirits of the dead<BR>>
> travelling in disembodied form – certainly seem to be possible; so<BR>>
> Pike’s ghost in and of itself is not particularly puzzling. What is<BR>>
> puzzling is his turning up at the same time as Mucor and a
duplicate<BR>> > Oreb – a rather weird coincidence, if it is
one.<BR>><BR>> On 11/23/2011 8:57 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR>> I don’t
see Mucor’s appearance as a real problem. She is fascinated by <BR>> Silk and
is clearly following him since the exorcism. Next day she <BR>> appears twice
in the tunnels. She appears when Echidna possesses <BR>> Marble, and nobody
is saying that’s too much of a coincidence and <BR>> Echidna must have
brought her along. Even if Echidna likes her (didn’t <BR>> she say that
sometime?)<BR>><BR>> Oreb is the tricky one. Silk comes up with an
explanation that is at <BR>> least rational but nobody believes (maybe that’s
a hint from Wolfe <BR>> that the ghost is real). I’m not convinced by your
idea that Mucor <BR>> gives others special powers – I don’t remember any
instances of it.<BR><BR>There is no precedence for Mucor possessing and animal
to travel to a <BR>location and then "chaining" into an astral appearance. Given
her <BR>apparent powers, I can't imagine why such a thing would even be
<BR>necessary. This is a theory utterly without foundation. It has a feel of
<BR>desperation about it. I do not like.<BR><BR>It is not that the appearances
of Pike's ghost, or Mucor, or Oreb in the <BR>window is a such a big problem on
their own. The problem is their near <BR>simultaneous appearance, and the
surrounding facts. Any serious theory <BR>on this event needs to explain how the
appearance of all three fit <BR>together. Mucor and Oreb are linked by being in
the room together when <BR>Silk awakes. The likelihood that Oreb is astral
connects them both to <BR>the Rajan. The subsequent appearance of Pike's ghost
acting more like <BR>something from "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini" than
"Wuthering <BR>Heights" or "A Christmas Carol" makes him plausibly associated
with the <BR>Rajan (whom we haven't seen previously but must be there unless
Oreb <BR>lied about being in the
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