Dionysus

Gerry Quinn · 01 Dec 2010, 16:39 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:39:49 -0000
Subject: (urth) Dionysus
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From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>

> ?Really? That the Neighbor lied is the only explanation? It can't be that 
> the process cannot be done twice? ("I cannot make you well AGAIN") Anyway, 
> I think the slashes on the Silk's wrists and the Neighbor's statement that 
> she was sending Not Horn into a person "whose own spirit is dying" make it 
> clear that Silk killed himself in front of Hyacinth's casket. He was 
> either dead or almost dead when the Neighbor's sent dying Not Horn to 
> reanimate him.

I think Silk cut himself in despair, but not fatally.  Why cut your face if 
you want to kill your body?  His spirit was dying, but not his body.  (In 
the end, I guess, his spirit got better, and Horn's died...)

> Also, Seawrack and Babbie took a good look at Horn and were not the least 
> in doubt that he had died. They were still certain when he returned to 
> them alive. [I guess they could have lied about that, but I very much 
> doubt it.]

>From a distance.  They didn't climb down into the pit.  And neither of them 
is human, so not perhaps the best judges.

- Gerry Quinn

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