Dreams
The Whorl list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 22 Jun 2000
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Adam Stephanides — 22 Jun 2000, 09:46

> Alex David Groce wrote:
> On the prophecy thing--does anyone in the books ever attempt to make
> a prophecy (augury) or even have a dream that doesn't foreshadow
> events to come?  I think that although there's no time-travel going
> on here, lots of things seem as locked in as in BOTNS.

Have any of Horn's dreams in OBW turned out to be prophetic yet?  I
remember thinking that Horn spent rather a lot of time telling us his
dreams, and none of them had any obvious relevance (except for the one
in the pit which may have been Silk resurrecting him).  But I only read
the book once, so I could be wrong.

--Adam

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Alex David Groce — 22 Jun 2000, 10:00
  follows, by subject match Adam Stephanides

Adam spoke:

> Have any of Horn's dreams in OBW turned out to be prophetic yet?  I
> remember thinking that Horn spent rather a lot of time telling us his
> dreams, and none of them had any obvious relevance (except for the one
> in the pit which may have been Silk resurrecting him).  But I only read
> the book once, so I could be wrong.

Well, not that I recall, but then in Long Sun many of the more significant
"foretold" events don't occur until later books (and some aren't really
clear until a second reading--the prophecy is highly metaphorical, but
clearly intentional at least at Wolfe's level).

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  "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
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David Duffy — 22 Jun 2000, 23:24
  follows, by subject match Alex David Groce

> Alex David Groce wrote:
> 
> Have any of Horn's dreams in OBW turned out to be prophetic yet?  I
> remember thinking that Horn spent rather a lot of time telling us his
> dreams, and none of them had any obvious relevance (except for the one
> in the pit which may have been Silk resurrecting him).  But I only read
> the book once, so I could be wrong.
> --Adam

Horn says a tall man with a big nose or a spider: therefore that dream was
a favour from a good neighbour.


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