a sincere question mostly for roy (not an attack)

Marc Aramini · 01 Jan 2011, 18:08 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:08:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) a sincere question mostly for roy (not an attack)
In-Reply-To: <006a01cba98c$08dce140$76d04a0c@rclackey>
Message-ID: <80340.97521.qm at web58208.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Fair enough, Roy, just wondering if we agreed on anything that was not explicit in the text.
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I won't go over it again with you, but it explains a lot of the narrative shifts for me and the tree is there at the time he says goodbye and Babbie kind of enters the picture somehow, and I feel it actually fulfills the "riding a beast with three horns" prophecy better than?him just?stating he rode it on green,??but I respect that it doesn't work for you.? I just want to show that I'm not absolutely murdering the text with that particular interpretation.
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And?I interpreted the sacrifice near Blanko, if I am remembering correctly, where he feels watched, as the Trees and not the Outsider (except possibly the Outsider acting through the trees) being their creepy Vanished God selves and watching him, but he can't turn around.? Maybe I am misremembering scenes, though, but one of his eucharistic re-enactions leaves that 
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Just wondering if we agreed on anything.? Happy New Year!
Marc
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--- On Sat, 1/1/11, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:

Whether or not the Outsider was also the Vanished God who comforted Silkhorn
under the trees in the forest near the Nadi can be debated. Silkhorn
couldn't see that Vanished God in the darkness under the trees, just as he
had known that he was not permitted to turn around to look at the Outsider,
the god he knew (or thought he knew) was standing behind him after he
sacrificed at that altar near Blanko.

-Roy

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