'Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist decoded: Asopus/Plataea'

James Wynn · 15 Jun 2010, 01:13 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:13:35 -0500
Subject: (urth)
 =?windows-1252?q?=27Gene_Wolfe=92s_Soldier_of_the_Mist_dec?=
 =?windows-1252?q?oded=3A_Asopus/Plataea=27?=
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimiBPdm2k9Nhmv8nmGh5IAX9_SWY-5ZwTe2hEAx at mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTimiBPdm2k9Nhmv8nmGh5IAX9_SWY-5ZwTe2hEAx at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4C16D3BF.90704 at gmail.com>

On 6/14/2010 7:22 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> Spotted in Google Alerts:
> http://ubikcan.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/gene-wolfes-soldier-of-the-mist-decoded-asopusplataea/
>    

"Asopus, whom Latro calls the ?river-man? (p. 6) and the ?Swift God? (p. 
7) is both the name of a god and the name of the important river next to 
the battle scene that just precedes the opening of the novel."

All this is true. I haven't found any reference to him having horns, 
however.
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