Andrew and Marc and Silk and Horn and Babbie

Andrew Bollen · 23 Jan 2003, 23:46 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: "Andrew Bollen" <abollen at internode.on.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Andrew and Marc and Silk and Horn and Babbie
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:46:44 +1100
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Blattid wrote:

>I have trouble seeing how the Babbie _persona_ could be extricated
>back out from the Silk/Horn/? melange and put back into
>Babbie.

Need this be very different than Mucor's possessions, Mora/Fava's? Perhaps
the agency is actually Mucor (although I don't know of any instance where we
are told she cause a "3rd party possession".)

> Why would the Babbie persona be necessary to save the
 > Narrator at that point? By which I mean, why Babbie
>  specifically?

Well, if the agency was in fact Mucor, this makes sense. More generally,
Babbie is strong (SilkHorn is exhausted), brave (Silk is falling into his
Silkish pit of despair), and devoted to Horn.

> And what happened to Babbie while this
>  was going on?

Perhaps he's sleeping? (I know, Babbie is nocturnal.)

--=20

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