Ultan's Library Shadows of the New Sun Interviews

Andrew Mason · 19 Jun 2013, 20:55 · from 2013-June.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:55:22 +0100
Subject: (urth) Ultan's Library Shadows of the New Sun Interviews
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Lee Berman wrote:

>
> (p.s. Heh, be careful! In one interview, Gene Wolfe was explicit in
> specifying
> Aphrodite as the sex goddess, not the love goddess, along with Ares as a
> soldier
> god rather than the god of war. I assume that has significance to his
> work.)
>

True: yet the Whorl goddess Kypris, whose name derives from a title of
Aphrodite, is certainly a love goddess and not just a sex goddess. (She
inspires Mint, for instance, with love of the city.) I would guess this is
an example of the Wolfean theme of people growing into their assigned
roles; if enough people see her as a love goddess, that is what she will
be.

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