Latro musings

Lisa Schaffer-Doggett · 09 Aug 2003, 03:18 · from urth-v0308.mbox · original

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From: Lisa Schaffer-Doggett <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: (urth) Latro musings
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:18:34 -0700
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Hi all,

Unfortunately, I have woefully little to contribute to the=20
understanding of these great  books, but I've found the discussion=20
going on here quite helpful.  I just picked up a U of Chicago edition=20
of Herodotus' History which I plan to read as soon as I finish the last=20
few pages of Legends of the Samurai.  On an aside, I also picked up a=20
copy of Hamlet's Mill which I plan to tackle after H (thanks Crush). =20
The farther I travel on the path of the Autodidact, the more pissed I=20
get at my public (including college) education.  I should have read=20
Herodotus ten, if not fifteen, years ago.  Oh well.

Anyhow back to Latro.  This is my one contribution, and it's only an=20
aesthetic one.  I found that while I was reading the Soldier omnibus I=20
was having a devil of a time keeping track of all of the people and=20
events.  A few times I backtracked to figure out what was going on but=20
then I stopped and just read through.  It was quite an interesting=20
effect, forgetting a lot of what I read.  Very disorienting, but it=20
produced quite an empathetic bond in me with Latro and made him one of=20
my favorite characters in the works of Wolfe's I've read.

For what it's worth,
Don

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