A Point about Astral Travel (was re: The Secret: a new theory)
The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 20 Apr 2001
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 20 Apr 2001, 10:40

> Also, the astral travel surprises even the inhumi who 
> participate in it, which makes it even more unlikely that
> Krait told Horn about it. 

...which caused me to note something that hadn't occurred to
me before: The Narr is capable of astral travelling only after
he's had his whole-body transplant. The dumb explanation would
be "it's a power Silk has had all along but never knew about
because he never slept around any sleeping inhumi," which is
possible but not very plausible. A somewhat better explanation:
it's somehow due to the fact that the Narr is not attached as
firmly to the body of Silk as most people are to their bodies.


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Kevin J. Maroney — 20 Apr 2001, 14:31
  follows, by subject match Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

> At 10:40 AM 4/20/01 -0700, Blattid wrote:
> A somewhat better explanation:
> it's somehow due to the fact that the Narr is not attached as
> firmly to the body of Silk as most people are to their bodies.

That's what I've always assumed--that the Neighborly process of
transplanting Horn's spirit into Silk's body infused the resultant person
with some degree of the Neighbor's unhuman physical laws, including the
different relationship with distance. 

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  Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com
  Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
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