Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

David Stockhoff · 19 Nov 2011, 15:09 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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On 11/19/2011 9:31 AM, James Wynn wrote:
>
>>> >  What is Pas but Typhon's memories.
>> Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
>> ??? Personality, of course! Weren't you just a while ago claiming 
>> that that were where chems' personalities had come from, real people 
>> but without their memories?
>
> Sure. But, investigating the connection between memory and identity 
> the common thread in Wolfe's fiction--the question of _who_ we are 
> aside from our physical minds.

Seems to me that whereas spirit, mind, and body are clear divisions, 
that between memories and persona is more subject to authorial "whim" 
(i.e., necessity). But that's not to say Wolfe violates it. I can see 
the resurrected Horn as Neighbor personality + Horn memories. That would 
explain why he doesn't start acting Neighborly. His body seems to have 
changed as well.

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