Like a good Neighbor

David Stockhoff · 22 Nov 2011, 14:42 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:42:12 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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On 11/22/2011 8:10 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* David Stockhoff <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> > > *From:* James Wynn <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>
> > > I think people who claim that Seawrack was wrong need to explain why
> > > Wolfe would have her make such a false diagnosis in the first place.
> > > To explain why she abandoned Horn in the pit?
>
> > But to what purpose? To merely emphasize that Horn was knocked really,
> > really unconscious---hard enough to acquire Faerie powers? And Babbie
> > was also really impressed---oh, but they have no medical experience 
> with
> > humans.
> I don?t think he acquired Neighbour-like powers just from being 
> knocked out. But that?s beside the point. Horn had to be alone for 
> days to be in such a state that he would betray his family to an 
> inhumi. Seawrack deciding he was dead works for this, and also 
> indicates something about her, i.e. that she is relatively clueless 
> about such matters, and perhaps also decides too easily that she has 
> lost her man.
> As for Babbie, he actually sees him when he is alive. Horn shuts his 
> eyes. Unless you think Horn died exactly then, Babbie got it wrong.


NO. Horn was a spiritless corpse. Babbie was right.
> But like you say, neither is human even if Seawrack may have been 
> once. Would it be surprising if Horn saw a Neighbour from twenty feet 
> and thought he was dead, then later found out he wasn?t?

I see. So again, humans and Neighbors are exactly the same and you can 
switch their positions to get really useful answers.

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