Like a good Neighbor

Lee Berman · 21 Nov 2011, 19:20 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:20:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
Message-ID: <SNT123-W348346E16DBD9C213BE85ACFCB0 at phx.gbl>

>Those short stiff hairs got me thinking that maybe the
>long nosed spider fellow is some manifestation of Babbie.

>If a greenbuck can be a Neighbor, so can a hus.

Well, goats, pigs and deer all have short stiff hairs, hooves
(hides and sinew) and horns (if you count tusks). I see little problem
in Wolfe spreading his fauns across a range of ungulates.

>But whose soul would Babbie have to begin with?

Phea's? The soldier named Babirousa's?

>The problem becomes ... how is it that Babbie is still around?
>..maybe he's got a spare soul laying around in there?  Most confusing.

Well yes, and no. Normally we think of a person's soul as individual and
indivisible. But that is not the case in this story. They are like a deck
of cards, able to be shuffled and dealt out in different combinations and
portions.

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