(urth) Long Sun Laughs

[John Watkins]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

> My biggest question throughout the whole book was the nature of Quetzal. I
> find it interesting that the heads of this church are a feathered serpent
> and an eel. I can't help but relate this to my feelings (which I've
> expressed here before, and apologize in advance to the faithful) that the
> Catholic Church has long been usurped by vampires of sorts.  I'm sure I'm
> not alone in that feeling, and I find it extremely provocative that a devout
> Catholic would set things up that way. more testament to Wolfe's gutsiness.
>  I can't help but feel that Quetzal was shepherding his flock to Green as
> food. talk about a blood sacrifice.  I assume it was him who got Teasel
> early on.
>

I dunno.  Had Quetzal ever seen the corpse of one of his own kind?  If so,
he'd presumably know what would happen and pick the planet he *didn't* want
them to go to, right?
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