Silk beating two horses, Orpine rotting to vines, and Wolfe's dedication

Marc Aramini · 15 Feb 2011, 13:03 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:03:45 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Silk beating two horses, Orpine rotting to vines,
	and Wolfe's dedication
In-Reply-To: <2B10DFD0F8BC4468AA94E0A2DF926DD8@jill>
Message-ID: <720341.97074.qm at web161814.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

trees are just as important to me as vines,  my bad I couldn't find it when I was writing the stuff last night.  sorry about the title.  The idea of two black horses that are brothers is interesting to me.  These things beg for interpretation of some kind.  Luckily we can explain waters receding in light of Lake Limna, or else I would be saying something else right now ...

--- On Tue, 2/15/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote:

But the dream explicitly says that Orpine will
> NOT rot.? And if she did, Silk was not thinking of
> vines: "The cold, sinking waters of underground streams that
> were sinking every year it seemed would never wash Orpine,
> would not rot her back to trees and flowers..."? Just
> saying, maybe if you read carefully first and interpret
> after - and try not to overinterpret - things will make more
> sense.? Like the key imagery of this dream, for
> example, which I think is really pretty up front.? This
> advice is not solely directed at you, Marc ;-)?
> Honestly, Wolfe is a far more straightforward writer than
> some folks give him credit for!]
>

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