Latro Thoughts

David Stockhoff · 30 Jul 2013, 11:53 · from 2013-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 07:53:32 -0400
Subject: (urth) Latro Thoughts
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And those differences are if anything made even more clear among the 
gods of the /Whorl./

On 7/29/2013 8:30 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Yeah the trauma is only the most superficial touch of realism- gods 
> and the wellsprings of human faith are as real as they can be in those 
> books, but the religious scheme is syncretic. The triple goddess, the 
> sublimation of Pleistorus into Ahura Mazda- these are all pointing to 
> a recrystallization and refocus of the divine identities into 
> something more uniform once their ideological differences are 
> resolved. Wonderful books.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Christopher Simon 
> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com <mailto:kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> From: Jeff Wilson <mailto:jwilson at clueland.com>
>> Sent: ?7/?29/?2013 2:39 PM
>> To: The Urth Mailing List <mailto: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 <mailto:jwilson at clueland.com> >
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