Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

James Wynn · 16 Nov 2011, 03:48 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:48:55 -0600
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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>> You might be right. But I don't really think you appreciate why it bothers me. Why doesn't the Rajan say good-bye to Seawrack, or Pig, or any of the other people he has met on his travels? Why only to Horn's family? I can think of two reasons, but I'm not inclined to pick them up unless I can comfortably dispose of Marc's substantial explanation: We are being signalled that (in some way) Horn is dying at this point in the story.
> Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> There's the pedestrian explanation that Horn's family are the ones he had set out to rejoin. The others were completely past at that point.

That's worse than pedestrian. It's not even trying. There's no evidence 
that he is in any hurry to get back to Lizard Island.

Does it ever say he looks somewhat like Horn in while in dream-travel? 
It really tells us nothing that he merely doesn't look exactly like 
Silk. We already know that it isn't just Horn and Silk in there.
J.

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