Like a good Neighbor

David Stockhoff · 21 Nov 2011, 19:52 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:52:19 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
In-Reply-To: <3A2BE05474084EA2B79A4EA8E063CF8E@Rover>
References: <1321817523.83932.YahooMailClassic at web161801.mail.bf1.yahoo.com><4EC959AF.6080106 at irit.fr><4EC98EA2.6060903 at gmail.com><F6785705-6390-45F9-8187-BA28D41DA4A1 at gmail.com><4EC99908.2050002 at gmail.com><CBD3CB6B352E4006B1E1B032B57E2E61@Rover><4EC9B83F.20109 at gmail.com><293B7EC250334AE89DB1BAEDC686DCD5@Rover><988E7802-D8C3-4302-906B-F949EE1D4352 at gmail.com><2487114869464FA8B2F62C7BA480D270@Rover><4ECA8589.9090104 at gmail.com><64847661D06A447C9AFECC3D963D0087@Rover><4ECA8FB9.3070104 at gmail.com><BCE9C57032C74579950B4573D86E0D80@Rover><4ECA9B8D.8060001 at gmail.com><FDCC97DAC95D47BA8B4578B1D389A6CC@Rover>
	<4ECAA2EF.4010907 at gmail.com>
	<3A2BE05474084EA2B79A4EA8E063CF8E@Rover>
Message-ID: <4ECAABF3.5030500 at verizon.net>

On 11/21/2011 2:28 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* James Wynn <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>
> > On 11/21/2011 1:04 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> > > If by ?OUR Neighbour? you mean that he replaced Horn, it seems you
> > > must conclude that he replaced a Horn who was alive and healthy,
> > > albeit in a bad situation, because surely Horn was substantially
> > > recovered from his fall ? however he recovered ? by the time Krait 
> came.
>
> > Okay. It happened after Krait went away and before he came back. I 
> don't
> > think so. I'm pretty certain that is a faulty reading. But fine.
> ***************************
> She stared at me then as if I were some horror from the grave, and 
> screamed. I can never forget that scream.
> And I lay in the pit, as before. The Short Sun was burning gold.
> It had crossed the pit and vanished on the other side an hour or two 
> before, when the inhumu returned.

This means the sun had set 2 hours before Krait returned. When it was 
burning gold, it was dawn---any dawn. Wolfe jumps around, you see.
> ***************************
> Good luck finding a better reading. It looks pretty watertight to me.
>
> > AND before that Horn died in the pit and was resurrected.
> Your theory would seem to demand that. So who is long-nose and what is 
> his purpose?

A Neighbor who seeks to give some part of himself to return Horn to his 
quest.

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net