Like a good Neighbor

James Wynn · 23 Nov 2011, 18:03 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:03:40 -0600
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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On 11/22/2011 5:46 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> I've asked this twice without reply. 
> What's Seawrack doing with a Rajan than has nothing of Horn in him - 
> neither body nor soul?
> Yes, I know, there's 'always' 'something' 'left' - but the point is 
> we're precisely discussing whether in the very end there's anything left.

In order to answer this question, we'd really have to know what the 
purpose in sending Seawrack was in the first place.
Was her purpose solely for Horn? Did Mother decide Horn was a 
"worshipper" because he killed that pirate woman and caused her to be 
dumped in the water?

I think it is significant that the Narrator does not reconnect with 
Seawrack in his non-Horn body until the end when the Rajan returns to 
the Whorl with Marble, Nettle, and Seawrack. (and Oreb, of course). Of 
course, I'm not sure what the reconnection means any more than I know 
what the separation means.

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