For Joe: every being of his kind

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) For Joe: every being of his kind
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:31:39 -0700
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Joe said:
>How has Horn been "every being of his kind"? (pg 272 pb OBW). This is said
        by the neighbour Horn to Horn before he is resurrected in Silk. Hor=
n=20
has
        been (so far) a son, student, lover, fighter, colonist, husband,=20
father,
        mill builder, adulterer, sailor, quest taker....and more. Except fo=
r=20
the
        last, many New Vironese men could probably claim to be all these=20
things
        (replace miller with smith or cooper if you like).
        What do the writers mean by "his (?) search for the fabled town of=20
Pajarocu"
        in the Afterword to RTTW (pg 409 tor hc).
        Typically, my analysis just brings up questions I can't answer but =
I=20
have to
        say I like your theory more and more.
>

Well, I believe that Silk is the guy they are talking about at the end, tha=
t=20
Horn has left him entirely by the end of writing On Blue's Waters, (note th=
e=20
change from negative descriptions to positive descriptions: "I should have=20
mentioned his smile, etc etc") when he reposes under the tree and says good=
bye=20
to his family, going into Babbie. Therefore, "His (?) search for the fabled=20
town of Pajarocu" was not done by the man they are talking about, Silk, but=
 by=20
Horn, a different man who was temporarily in Silk. Horn was the only one=20
looking for Pajararocu.
As far as Silk being "every being of his kind", he has looked through the b=
lue=20
glass and sees the world as a holistic picture, and if his DNA has mixed wi=
th=20
the trees when he fell in, then he has created a new race, and is every bei=
ng=20
of his kind by virtue of being both plant and human, but still being Horn. =20
His DNA is then probably responsible for all the Vanished People that he=20
encounters directly after that, before they begin feasting on others (they =
do=20
get permission to come back ... "bwa ha ha.  We will eat you foolish=20
humans")I'm not clear if the plant genome has entered into Horn and turned =
him=20
into something like the Green man, to perpetuate a new species, but note th=
at=20
later Silk doesn't eat very much, and he is very sick in the cold weather. =
 Of=20
course, I think his staff is feasting on him, but perhaps he is going throu=
gh=20
the winter blues that most plants undergo - I'm just not sure yet if Silk i=
s=20
the original green man through mixing with Horn or not.

Marc Aramini

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