Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:30:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Straight 
Subject: Re: (urth) time bending headache

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, maa32 wrote:

> I (half in levity, I admit) yesterday said something about sending
> horn a year into the past into Silk's body to finish up the healing,
> possibly leaving his home on Blue and Silk's home at the same time.  
> This gave me such a headache that I got sick thinking about it: if
> Horn is transplanted into Babbie, then Horn can possibly be helping
> himself on the boat in Babbie, and he can see his own intelligence in
> the eyes of the beast.  The headache was only beginning.  Could
> Horn/Silk be writing about the things that happened to Horn as they
> happened, or even slightly before?  ARGH.

While I don't buy this theory (I think Wolfe would have done a little more
with the concept if this was truly going on), I think it's my favorite of
your theories.  The idea of Silk writing about Horn's adventures while
they're happening is pretty neat.

-Rostrum




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