teleporting inhumu

Michael Straight · 22 Apr 2001, 21:44 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: teleporting inhumu
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:44:39
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Robert Borski wrote:

> My own explanation for Horn's Neighborliness, of course, is that he's part
> Passilk, and Pas is selon moi a Neighbor--not that Horn's life has been
> reconstructed/reconstituted by the technomagic of the Neighbors. The net
> result is still the same.

Never mind the wacky Typhon-is-a-neighbor theory, I don't think there's
any evidence that Pas or Passilk ever posessed Silk, Horn, or
Silk|Horn.  Silk|Horn is Passilk inasmuch as there's some Silk in both of
them, but there's no Typhon in Silk|Horn.

-Rostrum

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