Like a good Neighbor

Gerry Quinn · 21 Nov 2011, 16:34 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:34:08 -0000
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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From: David Stockhoff 

On 11/20/2011 8:29 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> > It was as if my spirit had gone and left my body unoccupied as it did 
> > on Green; but in this case it had returned, and my memories (such as 
> > they were) were those of the body and not those of the spirit. 

> You're right, Gerry. This is merely a clumsy metaphor. Wolfe should know 
> better than to expose hapless readers to such misleading cues. He meant 
> to say that Horn felt really awful.
You can take it literally, if you like.  He?s talking of the period when he lay semi-conscious in the pit, and his fragmented memories of that time are dissociated from his returned spirit.  He even contrasts it with the time he actually died.
Why not tackle the more substantive issues?  Do you think Horn died, and if so when?  Before or after the time he ?saw? the long-nosed man?  Before or after he got thirsty?
- Gerry Quinn
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