Babbie

John Watkins · 19 Mar 2009, 17:54 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:54:16 -0400
Subject: (urth) Babbie
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Ok, why is Incus a woman rather than, as he seems, a gay man?

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:51 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  Yeah, I don't know.  Could Horn just be Horn?  Why would his parents have
>>> bought a special embryo?  I dunno.
>>>
>>
>> I'm with you on that. I don't buy Horns origin as anything other than
>> standard issue.  Of course, by the end Horn is not just Horn, but
>> you don't need me to point that out I guess.
>>
>
> That route actually works a little if you use the Short Sun = Sol. But I've
> seen Marc take such awful thrashings trying to justify the presence of the
> Neighbors and inhumi on Urth. It's such an intractable obstacle that I'd
> probably want to try a lot of other options before going there.
> Horn as Typhon works so nicely at textual and certain thematic levels. But
> I'm not prepared at this time to defend it as emphatically as I am that the
> Raja was the greenbuck, and Incus is a woman, yet many (most?) people don't
> find those things convincing either. So, there ya go.
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