Like a good Neighbor

entonio at gmail.com · 20 Nov 2011, 19:26 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (entonio at gmail.com)
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:26:39 +0000
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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No dia 2011/11/20, ?s 14:36, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com>  
escreveu:
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> From: Ant?nio Pedro Marques

No, it was from someone else.

> > This is similar to Gerry's refutation about the fact that the  
> Rajan claimed to know
> > something about the Mother's  worshippers but not /everything/.
>
> As you know very well, that was just intended as one of many  
> examples of how he seems to know essentially diddley squat about the  
> Neighbours.
>
> Having read as far as the chapter ?Krait?, the idea that he was  
> replaced by a Neighbour in the pit seems bizarre to me.  Just consid 
> er the most obvious point: he needs the help of an inhumu to get out 
> !  And to get it he betrays his wife and family.  Unless you think t 
> his Neighbour is a spy for his race and a rather nasty piece of work 
> , or a very impulsive and impulsive creature with no conscience, how 
>  do you explain this?
>
> The ?glittering eyes? he sees while lying semi-conscious, and the  
> ?long nosed man or spider? that he apparently sees with his eyes  
> closed are presumably Neighbours.  [Are we supposed to think of Seve 
> rian?  Doesn?t make much sense for him to be there though.]  The lon 
> g-nosed man seemingly uses a device on him that sends him on a short 
>  astral excursion.  I think it is likely that this device *changed*  
> him in some way by granting him or causing him  to develop certain p 
> sychic abilities (they probably developed as a consequence of his te 
> mporary exposure as well as subsequent experimentation and other eve 
> nts).  But he is still Horn.
>
> Assuming the Neighbours were present and are essentially benevolent,  
> it seems they could not help him in the obvious way, i.e. by getting  
> him out of the pit, as Krait did.  But this ties in very well with  
> the notion that they are half-in, half-out of our dimension, and are  
> limited in their physical abilities (see also the corpses in the  
> sewer on Green).
>
> So that?s my working theory so far.  I don?t disagree with  
> James?s assertion that the Neighbours have something of Faerie about 
>  them, but Horn ain?t no changeling.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
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