# Pathos for Latros (Son of Witz) *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 19 Mar 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Stockhoff *19 Mar 2010, 21:11* Just reading that again gave me chills. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:34:38 -0400 > From: "Son of Witz" > To: Urth at urth.net > Subject: (urth) Pathos for Latros > Message-ID: > <4a322928e1c85c142f2fbf50f2d26399.squirrel at email.fatcow.com> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > [quote] > Geese fly overhead, flying by night, calling like new boots across the sky > to their fellows. It may be the last sound I hear. Every man hears a last > sound. For many it must be the clash of arms. That is a good last sound, > but the shouts of geese is a better one. We sink into the earth, down > into the lands of the dead. Where I shall drink from Death's river to > forget a life I cannot remember. > [/quote] > > This is a paragraph written by a man with remarkable depth of soul. Gene > Wolfe may be a great and tricky science-fantasy author, and a lot is made > of his head scratching acrobatics, but first and foremost he is human with > a profound sense of empathy and an amazing gift for conveying it across > the gulf between our souls. I'm grateful to read his work. I think Latro > might be my favorite of his narrative voices. So very human. > > ~Witz > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > --- ### Son of Witz *19 Mar 2010, 21:32 · in reply to David Stockhoff* > On Fri, March 19, 2010 5:11 pm, David Stockhoff wrote: > Just reading that again gave me chills. happy to help. it's a hot day. I really love these Latro books. I don't mind feeling lost in the plot. Latro is lost too. I haven't heard anything about more of them, though I don't suppose I would. It must take a lot of research to write these. I don't know how Sidon ends. One wants Latro to get his memory, but that might thwart the very point. Still, one wants him to find peace. >> [quote] >> Geese fly overhead, flying by night, calling like new boots across the >> sky >> to their fellows. It may be the last sound I hear. Every man hears a >> last >> sound. For many it must be the clash of arms. That is a good last sound, >> but the shouts of geese is a better one. We sink into the earth, down >> into the lands of the dead. Where I shall drink from Death's river to >> forget a life I cannot remember. >> [/quote] ---