Babbie and Horn: In A Pig's Eye

William Ansley · 23 Aug 2000, 23:44 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Babbie and Horn: In A Pig's Eye
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 23:44:48
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At 2:35 PM -0500 8/23/00, Robert Borski wrote:
>I also find the following line from Blue intriguing: "Because I could not
>leave Pig blind, these people were able to bring me here, and so ended any
>chance of success I might have had." In adventures still to come, will Horn
>donate an eye to Pig and spend the rest of his life half-blind?

Wow! I agree with you on this one Robert.

Way back on Tue, 19 Oct 1999, so long ago that I still felt clever=20
for figuring out that Olivine was Hammerstone and Marble's daughter,=20
I wrote this.

>Horn gave his eye to Pig. And Marble's daughter gave up one of her eyes for
>her mother.
>

[Long passage citing textual evidence that Olivine is Hammerstone and=20
Marble's daughter, and other stuff, snipped. Of course I eventually=20
realized that the reason no one else had mentioned this idea before=20
me was that everyone else had figured it out already and thought is=20
was too obvious to mention.]

--=20
William Ansley

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