Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

Gerry Quinn · 17 Nov 2011, 12:51 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:51:53 -0000
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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From: David Stockhoff 

On 11/16/2011 7:44 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> > Perhaps Silk is right about Oreb jumping down to the kitchen garden.

> That's impossible because Oreb does not lie. Wolfe is faithful to 
> character above all else.
Oreb can certainly deceive, as he did when he played dead when he was due to be sacrificed.  If he can do that, he can surely lie if he wants.
I don?t *think* he is lying (for some reason ?no hop? convinces me most).  But I would accept it before I accepted a time-travelling Silk who snatches Mucor out of the ether and comes back looking exactly like an aged Pike, wearing Pike?s hat.
If you want a wacky theory that?s less wacky than the above, consider that the technology to project ghosts is known to exist on the Whorl.  Maybe some god sent a flier down to Silk?s window with a projection device.  Mucor was just visiting, but as becomes clear later she?s hovering around Silk all the time anyway, so that?s no surprise.
Or maybe Mucor found Silk by possessing a bird, then released it to appear in astral form while the bird flew away.  What about Pike who comes along later?  A ghost sent by the Outsider, perhaps, signalling that Silk (who was sent, or so he believes, to help Pike) is on the right track.  
Of course, none of these theories are terribly convincing.  I personally find them more convincing than James?s theory, though, even if they do depend on separate series of events leading to denouments in Silk?s bedroom.  
By the way, wasn?t there some rumour that Wolfe said he threw a ghost into an SF story somewhere just to see what folks would make of it, or am I imagining that?  If so, Pike seems a good candidate.
- Gerry Quinn
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