Babbie's 20-20-20-20 vision

Robert Borski · 12 Mar 2001, 23:19 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Robert Borski" <rborski at charter.net>
Subject: (whorl) Babbie's 20-20-20-20 vision
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:19:18
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Patera Nutria, my fellow quinquagenarian, having asked:

<3. I cannot recall evidence that Neighbors have two heads. Neither Babbie
nor any of the other indigenous lifeforms of Blue do, do they?>

Not sure. How do you interpret the scene on dream-Urth that Hoof describes
as following:

"Our boat was water, and Babbie was a hairy man with thick arms and real big
shoulders, and glasses, and a couple of Babbie's eyes (the little ones)."

(Note also how Hoof describes Horn as looking more like the father he
remembers from Blue.)

Will I now be damned if I theorize that Babbie has at least tetra-ocular
vision--half of which apparently needs correction by spectacles?

By Pas's bright four eyes, I'm almost sure of it!

Robert Borski

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