# More questions while rereading OBW *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Sep 2000* > 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. --- ### Endymion9 *04 Sep 2000, 17:19* p.224 Horn dreams "wrapping a slimy tentacle around my neck, he having become Scylla." Oreb. In Oreb's voice she demanded I take her to the Blue mainframe. Is there a Blue mainframe? What would it be like? So far we have seen the Neighbors and inhumi portrayed as spiritual creatures and very little of their technology? Krait made mention to Horn that the inhumi were a vastly older race than humans and that they had seen things humans could not even imagine or some similar quote. p.265 The Neighbors house didn't like Borsat? Forced him to leave? More Neighbor technology at work? p.238 Seawrack see's the inhumi differently? She can't hear him sometimes at all? Is this some sort of inhumi technology reference? p.224 Krait's death scene. Dissolves into a fetid liquid similar to the one in the sewers that Horn opened. Were there inhumi dead as well as human slave dead in that sewer? Concerning Horn's change after the pit and the Neighbor touched his forehead with something p.228-9 Horn's perception has changed "to this day" He sees the sea differently. Because of the neighbor's touch? Now he can see through inhumi illusions? He could see from other's perspectives. p.230 Is Seawrack really going back as she was or can Horn just see her true nature now (coiled legs?) And this section concerns "how did the inhumi destroy the Neighbors??" p.262 inhumi fear Neighbors? But I thought the inhumi destroyed the Neighbors? This implies it was NOT by taking their blood. How else could the inhumi destroy them? p. 263 Neighbors kill inhumu Krait seemed to have no desire to go and attempt to feed off the Neighbors. So they obviously have some defense against inhumi. Then I still wonder what it means to be destroyed by them? Did the Neighbors create the inhumi and the inhumi wiped out their food source? Dennis/Endy http://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---