no, no - Horn must be the one who is moved

maa32 · 23 Jan 2003, 20:52 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) no, no - Horn must be the one who is moved
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:52:17 -0700
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There is one problem with Babbie being the one whose soul is transported in=
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the narrator - there is no mechanism.  When Horn goes into Silk, there is a=20
vanished person right there.  When Horn goes into Babbie, there is a vanish=
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God right there - "A tree like there is on green".  There is nothing to=20
transmit Babbie through that distance.  There has to be something at the=20
senders end - and we have direct textual evidence of that tree above Horn a=
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he sleeps. (Whenever Silk undergoes astral travel, he always has his branch=20
staff made from a tree vine with him, and it becomes very important that he=20
look for it every time he goes or it is taken away).

I really don't understand how you can say that Babbie going into Horn makes=20
any more sense than Horn going into Babbie, when it is QUITE clear that the=20
narrators of On Blue's Waters and In Green's Jungles have a very, very=20
different outlook on life, and one deals with the past, while one deals wit=
h=20
the present and tells the past sometimes in the third person, indicating th=
at=20
it happened to someone who seems to be a different person.  What good is=20
Babbie except as a receptacle for both Mucor when she wants to get away and=20
Horn when he needs a place for his soul?  Remember the couch in the dream o=
f=20
Horn's son - there is a couch with eight legs and ten, and someone hiding=20
underneath - this is Babbie, with Horn or Mucor hiding with it (8+2 legs, e=
h?)
 Babbie is a receptacle, not a paradigm of courage.

Oh well.  I think you should believe what you think fits the text the best =
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you.  At least I know what to believe.

Marc Aramini

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