What does Horn look like?

Don Doggett · 03 Oct 2004, 20:26 · from 2004-October.txt.gz

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From: harlekin at earthlink.net (Don Doggett)
Date: Sun Oct  3 20:26:24 2004
Subject: (urth) What does Horn look like?
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Message-ID: <0D22E736-15B5-11D9-9BDA-0003939CE29C at earthlink.net>

On Sunday, October 3, 2004, at 05:43 PM, James Wynn wrote:

>
> I was hoping someone here would know definitively if the cover art 
> were a mistake that was unapproved by Wolfe.  Or......do Horn and Silk 
> look verrrrry similar? Either way, I have always considered it an 
> important narrative point that Horn was balding so how he 
> looked...whether it was he or Silk that was balding is kind of 
> important (to me).
>

Don replies:

I highly doubt the cover art was approved by Wolfe.   The cover for 
RttW (besides being hideous) is the result of a misreading of the 
passage where Silkhorn is picked up by the godling.  It describes the 
godling's thumb as looking like a head with a curved hat (thumbnail).  
So I  wouldn't look to the cover art for any insight.

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