Dionysus

Roy C. Lackey · 06 Dec 2010, 08:27 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 02:27:38 -0600
Subject: (urth) Dionysus
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Gerry Quinn wrote:
>Also, if a Neighbour replaced Horn in the pit, how did he know Krait would
come?  If Krait (character list: the inhuma who was adopted by Horn) hadn't
come, it seems he would have lain there for ever and died - died again,
according to your theory.  Unless the Neighbour had planned it all with
Krait (and their conversation seems to make it doubtful) why would the
Neighbour engage in such a pointless exercise, effectively killing his own
spirit for no good reason?<
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That isn't the only problem this theory creates. It calls into question
everything that happened after the pit, which extends to the whole
manuscript written by Silkhorn. For one, it puts a different spin on
everthing Silkhorn had to say about the Neighbors. If Silkhorn was actually
a Neighbor, then he knew perfectly well their natural state of being, where
they went when they left Blue, what god(s) they worshipped, etc. He had no
need to wonder about any of the questions about Neighbors he wondered about;
he would or should have known the answers.

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>Also, doesn't it happen afterwards that the Neighbours turn over Blue to
Horn in return for certain considerations, in his capacity as representative
of the human race on Blue?  If Horn is really a Neighbourm how is this
agreement legitimate?<
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Quite so.

When the person calling himself Horn met that group of Neighbors in the
Land of Fires, the Neighbors who said that they, the remnant of their race,
had given Blue to the humans, he was asked (three times), as the
representative of the human race, if there would be any objection to
Neighbors visiting Blue from time to time (OBW, 271). The Neighbors were
assured that they could come and go as they pleased. If the entity who
represented all humans was a Neighbor, not a human, then he was not a true
representative of the human race and was not qualified to speak on its
behalf.

If the group of Neighbors did not know they were dealing with a fellow
Neighbor, it makes them foolish, at best. If they did know, it reduces the
whole scene to a farce.

-Roy

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