Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

António Pedro Marques · 16 Nov 2011, 21:07 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:07:01 +0000
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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Roy C. Lackey wrote (16-11-2011 20:30):
> Ant?nio Pedro Marques quoted and wrote:
>
>> Marc Aramini wrote (16-11-2011 18:50):
>>> --- On Wed, 11/16/11, Roy C. Lackey<rclackey at stic.net>   wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Scylla in Oreb looks like a mix between a big fat crow and something
> more
>>> humanistic, but defintely not purely like the human.  Animals possessed
>>> don't seem to look purely human.
>>
>> In support of this:
>>
>> - the inhumi look completely human because they have only one soul, and
> that
>> is the human one they develop from their prey;
>>
>> - the Rajan looks a bit like Horn because there's still some Horn in him,
>> but there is Silk also (and Pas?), so there's more than one soul;
>>
>> - Oreb looks strangely anthropoid because there's Scylla in him along with
>> the real Oreb;
>>
>> - when Scylla leaves, Oreb, for all his specialness, looks just like Oreb;
>
> On the final astral trip of the books, when Cilinia's ghost is put to rest,
> the bird and the girl are separated. Oreb goes back to looking just like a
> bird, and the bit of Scylla in him manifests itself as a young girl (RTTW,
> 387-388). She sat on the floor with Severian and the others (389). She was
> over in the corner of the mausoleum looking at her coffin while the bird sat
> on Hoof's shoulder (391). And the girl stopped talking like Oreb (392).

All correct. But why only in her last sentence end does the girl stop 
talking like Oreb? Is there any indication she had lost her snake arms too?

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