From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@ungames.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) A Point about Astral Travel (was re: The Secret: a
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:31:38 

At 10:40 AM 4/20/01 -0700, Blattid wrote:
>A somewhat better explanation:
>it's somehow due to the fact that the Narr is not attached as
>firmly to the body of Silk as most people are to their bodies.

That's what I've always assumed--that the Neighborly process of
transplanting Horn's spirit into Silk's body infused the resultant person
with some degree of the Neighbor's unhuman physical laws, including the
different relationship with distance. 

-- 
Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney@ungames.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
http://www.nyrsf.com

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