Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

James Wynn · 16 Nov 2011, 18:17 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:17:30 -0600
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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On 11/16/2011 12:07 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> The entire tone shift "I should have said how nice he smiled and how positive he was" in paraphrase at the end of OBW - it's very clear what has happened.  Horn was a negative unlikeable guy. Silk positive.

I think this viewpoint is an aspect of how Wolfe chose to tell the story 
and the fact that the reader does not realize during OBW all that has 
occurred before. Horn's relationship is quite close with Sinew based on 
how Sinew speaks him. But the narrator at that time is not *merely* Horn 
however one interprets his resurrection. The narrator addressing Horn's 
attitude to Sinew is viewing him as the one who rebelled on Green and 
killed Horn's body. To him, Sinew is a judas.  How else is Horn 
portrayed as unlikeable? He was entrusted with the mission to find Silk. 
Marrow's conversation with him seemed affable. Mucor seems to respect him.

At the end of OBW, the narrator is reconciled to Sinew in his own heart. 
Thus, what he says about Sinew has a change of tone as well.

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