Like a good Neighbor

David Stockhoff · 21 Nov 2011, 16:31 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:31:26 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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On 11/21/2011 10:05 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* James Wynn <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>
>>
>>     From OBW:
>>     "Once, as I lay there at the bottom of the pit,...
>>
> > Gerry wrote:
>> > > It happened *after* Horn came to himself and sat up.
>
> > Gerry, that's not what he wrote. He explicitly says, "Once, as I lay 
> there at the
> > bottom of the pit". The point in the story is undetermined but it is 
> BEFORE
> > he sat up. It straightforwardly the opposite of your reading.
> You?re forgetting the *thirst*. It was when he came to himself and sat 
> up that he noticed he was thirsty. When the long-nosed man sent him on 
> his astral voyage, he told Nettle he was dying of thirst. So the 
> long-nosed man must have come after Horn came to himself and sat up.
> He lay there both before and after sitting up that time. What else 
> would he do to rest? He could not climb walls or lick dew for days on 
> end. So ?once as I lay there? tells us nothing. But the thirst tells 
> us the sequence of events.

Gerry, are you saying a man can't be thirsty twice before he has a drink?

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