Latro Thoughts

Christopher Simon · 29 Jul 2013, 22:58 · from 2013-July.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Christopher Simon)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:58:02 -0400
Subject: (urth) Latro Thoughts
Message-ID: <51f6f38b.05f7b60a.64ca.1e0a at mx.google.com>

It does seem like the gods are real. The obvious alternative (albeit an un-Wolfean one) is that Latro's head trauma causes him to hallucinate, but enough of the other characters verify his ability in various ways that we can discount this.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at clueland.com>
Sent: ?7/?29/?2013 2:39 PM
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Latro Thoughts

On Mon, July 29, 2013 12:04, Fernando Gouvea wrote:
>  From what Wolfe has been saying, another /Soldier/ seems very unlikely.
>
> The interaction with the gods is central to the Latro books in way that
> go way beyond the /Long Sun/ books, I think.

Yes, and I believe the the pagan gods in the SOLDIER books are intended to
be literally that, as Wolfe has professed his belief in the existence of
lesser gods like those recorded as inferior rivals of the Old Testament
God.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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