# questions arising from Babbiehorn *The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 17 Nov 2011* > 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. --- ### Larry Miller *17 Nov 2011, 12:44* 1) What is the glass structure that Horn and Seawrack come across on the island? 2) If Horn is resurrected on Blue as a Nieghbor what/who dies on Green? 3) How is Silk inside Pig and his own body (occupied by Horn) at the same time? --- ### James Wynn *17 Nov 2011, 14:50 · in reply to Larry Miller* > On 11/17/2011 6:44 AM, Larry Miller wrote: > 1) What is the glass structure that Horn and Seawrack come across on > the island? 2) If Horn is resurrected on Blue as a Nieghbor > what/who dies on Green? 3) How is Silk > inside Pig and his own body (occupied by Horn) at the same time? 1) I don't believe there has been any satisfactory full explanation of this. 2) When Horn dies in the the pit, his spirit goes to the Outsider. Horn's body is possessed by a Neighbor (that greenbuck Horn was chasing when he fell into the pit) who feels culpable for his death. In recompense, he adopts Horn's identity and mission. Horn's body dies on Green. The Neighbor performs the same trick again by possessing and repairing Silk's dying body. Obviously, not everyone agrees with this. Marc has an equally developed theory about what happens in the pit. I don't no of any other strong opinion about what happens when Horn dies the two times. 3) Silk was scanned and has become a Mainframe god. Silver Silk/Silent Silk is possessing Pig. --- ### Larry Miller *17 Nov 2011, 16:48 · in reply to James Wynn* Thanks James. Back when I thought Blue was Urth I thought maybe it was the ruins of the Botanic Gardens and that the island was the floating plantlife that was inside before its destruction. I remember on my reread being struck by Horns description of the glass and the similarities with the gem that housed the claw. I also thought that the spiderlike figure placing something on Horns forehead was Severian resurrecting him with the claw. > On 11/17/11, James Wynn wrote: > On 11/17/2011 6:44 AM, Larry Miller wrote: >> 1) What is the glass structure that Horn and Seawrack come across on >> the island? 2) If Horn is resurrected on Blue as a Nieghbor >> what/who dies on Green? 3) How is Silk >> inside Pig and his own body (occupied by Horn) at the same time? > 1) I don't believe there has been any satisfactory full explanation of this. > > 2) When Horn dies in the the pit, his spirit goes to the Outsider. > Horn's body is possessed by a Neighbor (that greenbuck Horn was chasing > when he fell into the pit) who feels culpable for his death. In > recompense, he adopts Horn's identity and mission. Horn's body dies on > Green. The Neighbor performs the same trick again by possessing and > repairing Silk's dying body. Obviously, not everyone agrees with this. > Marc has an equally developed theory about what happens in the pit. I > don't no of any other strong opinion about what happens when Horn dies > the two times. > > 3) Silk was scanned and has become a Mainframe god. Silver Silk/Silent > Silk is possessing Pig. > > > > _______________________________________________ ---