Like a good Neighbor

Gerry Quinn · 21 Nov 2011, 17:17 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:17:51 -0000
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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From: David Stockhoff 
> On 11/21/2011 11:40 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:

> > When he came to himself and sat up (after a period in which he was not 
> > really conscious at all ? his spirit wasn?t present, as he puts it), 
> > he was ?terribly thirsty?. [Also cold and full of pain, which he 
> > mentions first.]
> > Some days went by, in which (as he tells us) he desperately tried to 
> > scrape droplets of dew from the walls.
> > When the long-nosed man came and sent him on his astral jaunt, he told 
> > Nettle that he was ?dying of thirst?. Not that he was ?terribly thirsty?.

> Are you asking when Horn died, or when he saw Nettle? That is related 
> after Krait comes, so it could be after Krait comes. It could be earlier 
> too.
He saw Nettle directly after the ?long-nosed man? touched something to his forehead.
If he has already died and been resurrected as a Neighbour, who is the long-nosed man and what is he up to?

> And what's the difference between "dying" and "terribly"? I guess he 
> didn't tell Nettle he was cold, so he must have been nice and toasty 
> warm at that point. Right?

He wasn?t dying of cold.  He was dying of thirst.

- Gerry Quinn


 
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