Dionysus

James Wynn · 06 Dec 2010, 21:24 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:24:08 -0600
Subject: (urth) Dionysus
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On 12/6/2010 2:43 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>> Roy C. Lackey: 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.
>
> Since that entity had Horn's body and memories mustn't we define him, within James' theory, as part-human part-Neighbor?

I would not say so.
I sat in on a Wolfe Q&A discussion in which someone said, "...and after 
all, Typhon was on the Whorl as Pas, in a way." Wolfe adamantly 
corrected him, "Not 'in a way', he _was_ on the Whorl."
Well, what was transferable from Typhon to Pas was what would be 
contained Horn's living body: His memories and his sense of identity. If 
Typhon was every bit on the Whorl as Pas then Horn was entirely there as 
the resurrected Horn 100%. And if a body in dream-travel is to be 
thought of as "all there", then the spirit of the resurrected Horn (the 
Neighbor) is 100% there too.
So the resurrected Horn is 100% human, 100% Neighbor.

I have more to say about this in the rest of my answer to Gerry and Roy.

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