Pike's ghost

Gerry Quinn · 23 Nov 2011, 19:31 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:31:46 -0000
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
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From: James Wynn 

> > If we put these two things together, ghosts ? spirits of the dead
> > travelling in disembodied form ? certainly seem to be possible; so
> > Pike?s ghost in and of itself is not particularly puzzling. What is
> > puzzling is his turning up at the same time as Mucor and a duplicate
> > Oreb ? a rather weird coincidence, if it is one.
>
> On 11/23/2011 8:57 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> I don?t see Mucor?s appearance as a real problem. She is fascinated by 
> Silk and is clearly following him since the exorcism. Next day she 
> appears twice in the tunnels. She appears when Echidna possesses 
> Marble, and nobody is saying that?s too much of a coincidence and 
> Echidna must have brought her along. Even if Echidna likes her (didn?t 
> she say that sometime?)
>
> Oreb is the tricky one. Silk comes up with an explanation that is at 
> least rational but nobody believes (maybe that?s a hint from Wolfe 
> that the ghost is real). I?m not convinced by your idea that Mucor 
> gives others special powers ? I don?t remember any instances of it.

There is no precedence for Mucor possessing and animal to travel to a 
location and then "chaining" into an astral appearance. Given her 
apparent powers, I can't imagine why such a thing would even be 
necessary. This is a theory utterly without foundation. It has a feel of 
desperation about it. I do not like.

It is not that the appearances of Pike's ghost, or Mucor, or Oreb in the 
window is a such a big problem on their own. The problem is their near 
simultaneous appearance, and the surrounding facts. Any serious theory 
on this event needs to explain how the appearance of all three fit 
together. Mucor and Oreb are linked by being in the room together when 
Silk awakes. The likelihood that Oreb is astral connects them both to 
the Rajan. The subsequent appearance of Pike's ghost acting more like 
something from "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini" than "Wuthering 
Heights" or "A Christmas Carol" makes him plausibly associated with the 
Rajan (whom we haven't seen previously but must be there unless Oreb 
lied about being in the room).
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