Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

James Wynn · 16 Nov 2011, 19:04 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:04:44 -0600
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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>> From: Roy C. Lackey<rclackey at stic.net>
>>
>>
>> First of all, Babbie's spirit-travel body looks generally
>> like a man's body,
>> but not quite. His hands aren't really hands; his hands
>> have only two big
>> fingers, suggestive of his normal cloven hooves (RTTW,
>> 354). And he wears
>> glasses (346). Yet the spirit-traveler's body is supposed
>> to be a
>> manifestation of how that person perceives himself to be at
>> his core, in his
>> heart, if you will. Horn never wore glasses.

Does anyone but Silk wear glasses in this story?

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