Soldier Of The Mist: first reading (mit spoilers)

James Wynn · 22 Jan 2010, 22:09 · from 2010-January.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:09:08 -0600
Subject: (urth) Soldier Of The Mist: first reading (mit spoilers)
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> I am thinking "The Black Man" favors Latro because Latro has forgotten his
> tribalism and doesn't think to treat him like an outsider based on his race,
> and also because Latro is even more of an outsider and vulnerable to
> exploitation than he.

Perhaps, but Latro gathers followers and admirers pretty quickly. We
don't know how they met because Latro didn't write it down before he
forgot the event.

> Io was the mortal priestess of Hera seduced by Zerus and then disguised as a
> heifer, etc. Not a goddess, as she was not placed in the heavens, at least
> not until Galilean times. I don't see much of a connection with the Io of
> myth, except the girl is a sort of mascot during their trek, similar to the
> heifer's flight from Hera's stinging gadfly

Well, I don't know if she was mortal. IIRC she was a nymph, a daughter
of a river god. And she is typically associated with the Moon.

J.

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