for joe- horn in babbie

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: for joe- horn in babbie
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:03:47 -0700
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For Joe, who said:
> If Horn is in Babbie, why have him in glasses? Silk is
        more likely to be in glasses, no? I do think there is something to=20
this, but
        re-reading
        the relevant chapters didn't help me work it out
>

In a previous post, I talked at great length about the various clues of Hor=
n=20
in Babbie: Maytera Marble's prophecy, right in On Blue's Waters, when she=20
says, after horn will experience wealth and command (ie, being Rajan of Goa=
n):
"I see you Horn, riding a beast with three horns." OK - Babbie has two horn=
s,=20
and with Horn riding him, he has three.
Then at the end of On Blue's Waters, like three pages from the end, Horn sa=
ys=20
goodbye to everybody and hears someone calling for Babbie on the shore and=20
knows that they are calling for him as Horn, then the narrator BECOMES Babb=
ie=20
for a few seconds (the text says, I couldn't see him, but I put my head on =
his=20
knee, or something like that) as the largest fragment of Horn's spirit flee=
s=20
into Babbie, accounting for the great shift in narrative concern from On=20
Blue's Waters, which happens almost entirely in the past, to In Green's=20
Jungles, where the story of Horn is told in bits and peices and in large pa=
rt=20
in the third person at Inclito's house as a story that happened to someone=20
else (because, in large part, it did), now that most of Horn is in Babbie. =20
Read chapter 17 of return to the whorl again. See how he treats Hoof.  He h=
ugs=20
him, picks him up, comforts him, and tries to say huh huh huh at two points=
:=20
once pointing to his mouth at his horns, another time right after he realiz=
es=20
his son is there.  (Has everybody just not been reading my posts?  Maybe I=20
should organize them better.  sorry if they are hard to follow :( ?)  Sorry=20
for repeating myself so many times for those of you who have followed me al=
l=20
along.  I think this outweighs the glasses a bit.

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