brief comment

Michael Straight · 08 Apr 2002, 19:55 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) brief comment
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:55:36 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> I can't endorse your theories about trees/inhumi/Neighbors/people either,
> but I will concede that there _is_ something odd going on wrt trees in the
> SS series--I just don't know what. Here's one you haven't mentioned befor=
e.
> Near the end of the second chapter of RTTW, Pig is seized by both fear and
> wonder when he discovers that he is in the midst of a wood but can't touc=
h a
> tree or be touched by one. It is his proximity to Silkhorn that seems to
> account for it, but he doesn't know that.

Could this be that he's following Silkhorn, who is using his
Neighbor-given ability to find paths through bushes?

Although it's possible that this works because the trees are moving to
make a path for Horn, the way it's described in the text it seems more
like some sort of extraordinary perception Horn has that enables him to
see the one clear path that most people can't find.

-Rostrum


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