Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

Marc Aramini · 19 Nov 2011, 20:54 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:54:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Fwd: Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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--- On Sat, 11/19/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:


From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Fwd: Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
To: urth at lists.urth.net
Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 9:18 AM


On 11/19/2011 10:42 AM, Marc Aramini wrote: 
As far as the puppet toy, any chance that toy was really Silk's?
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I once had a toy, a little wooden man in a blue coat who was moved by strings. When I played with him, I made him walk and bow, and spoke for him. I practiced until I thought myself very clever. One day I saw my mother holding the two sticks that held his strings, and my little wooden man saluting my youngest sister much more cleverly than I could have made him do it, and laughing with his head thrown back, then mourning with his face in his hands. I never spoke of it to my mother, but I was angry and ashamed.? ~ OBW pg 158
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The reference to siblings makes it unlikely that it was Silk. Anyway, wouldn't references to Silk's life undermine the idea that Horn was _in control_? until the end of OBW.
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Two brief things: Silver silk is in there already in OBW, that's why errors like calling the kids the wrong names creep in, he just isn't dominant until IGJ.
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I was reading shakespeare today and the term huswife came up, and I realized it was just a form of house: I think Babbie is like a spirit house.
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Also, your contention that Horn is part neighbor is?good,?I am just not sure he is fully neighbor and fully human in that way.? He is still spiritually inferior to Silk even after his time in the pit: a?self-serving man.??If the neighbor portion of him is there, it has not made him "better"?in the way that Silk is good, so I can't quite liken it to the condition of Christ being fully human and fully divine.? I will on my next re-read of Short Sun, probably next year, pay careful attention to hints that he is or is not a neighbor, but I am still sticking with the external neighbor Horn paradigm for now as something distinct from the resurrected Horn, I need to look at the text holistically again. (fasting was a trait of Silk when he was scared of being selfish)
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