Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

Roy C. Lackey · 16 Nov 2011, 19:55 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:55:36 -0600
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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James Wynn quoted and wrote:
> >> From: Roy C. Lackey
> >>
> >>
> >> 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?

I don't think so, at least not in SS. But Silkhorn does mention having his
glasses in Gaon (OBW, 54).

And, in regard to your earlier question, Mucor appeared sans body in the
smoke above a campfire near Blanko (IGJ, 280).

-Roy

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