Latro for Larry (spoilers)

Lee Berman · 17 Dec 2011, 15:46 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:46:06 -0500
Subject: (urth) Latro for Larry (spoilers)
Message-ID: <SNT123-W602C23B3A7BC9F642FB41CCFA10 at phx.gbl>

>Marc Aramini: > If latro is the avatar of Ares/Pleistorus, trapped in 

>human form [remember,pleistorus has been missing for a long time] then 

>some of latro's abilities> make sense.  His disillusionment with war leads 

>to the conclusion: Ares has given up on war and death as cruelty,

Gene Wolfe: Pas is certainly not Zeus. (No doubt he would like to be.) The 

classical gods are, in general, not as people today imagine them. Ares is 

the *soldier god*, not the war god, for example. Aphrodite is the sex goddess, 

not the love goddess; the love god is Eros, her son.

>From: Some Moments with the Magus: An Interview with Gene Wolfe
>by Nick Gevers, Michael Andre-Driussi, and James Jordan

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