# horn to silk *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Jul 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### maa32 *02 Jul 2002, 17:30* Hi Steve. In response to your statement that you liked the narrator of IGJ and RTW, but not the one of OBW, I totally agree that they are actually different people. I have explained the change to my own satisfaction on the list - the majority of Horn leaves the narrator at the end of OBW when he slumbers under the big tree and flees into Babbie (that weird scene where horn believes he IS Babbie - a beast with three "horns" - note how babbie treats Horn's son at the end of Return to the Whorl on Urth - he is mean until he recognizes him, then he bear hugs him and points at his "horns" to indicate his name)- since the trees are the "gods" or creators, to some degree of the vanished people, they have their powers of transmigration. Many, many people disagree with me, but I maintain that the entire change in narration supports my ideas - this is where the narrator's voice changes - right after he says goodbye to everyone and then Silk awakens - and the outlook of the narrator becomes positive RIGHT away - he claims his text was too negative, and that he should have said how much Hari mau smiled, etc. I have a lot of other ideas about the trees and their importance which have already been posted - but I just thought I'd restate that one for you. Marc Aramini ---