(urth) Father Inire Theory cont.

[Jerry Friedman]

What I think is the best piece of evidence is in chapter 11 of /Soldier of the 
Mist/, after Oior saves Latro from the bowman Spu (which Borski says Jeremy 
Crampton glossed as "eye"), when Latro sees Spu dead.  Spu points to his eye and 
calls Latro "Neurian", that is, werewolf.  Has Spu recognized Latro as a 
werewolf?  (Or could he only mean that he recognized Latro as Oior's sworn 
brother and concludes that he's Oior's fellow werewolf?  As we find out later, 
Oior is a Neurian, but my alternative seems a bit doubtful.)

Also, Borski suggests that the unexplained "wolf's tooth" that the Mother gave 
Latro, according to Apollo (Chapter 2) and Kore (Chapter 19) is the curse of 
lycanthropy.

Other things work as well if Latro is a werewolf as if he isn't.  Latro could 
mean "I bark".  His real name, Lucius, sounds like the Greek word for "wolf".  
He describes himself as "loping" and "trotting" (Chapter 41).  And when Latro 
meets the Triple Goddess, who calls herself the Queen of the Neurians (a point 
Borski misses), he says, "My teeth warred in my mouth, the teeth above against 
the teeth below"--chattering with fear, or starting to transform (Chapter 22).

Borski's ideas of evidence are very different from mine, but this is way better 
than Snow White, you wanna know my opinion.

Jerry Friedman




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From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: (urth) Father Inire Theory cont.

Page 36 did not appear for me.

The cover of this book is brilliant.

On 12/10/2010 2:49 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
> If you go to Google Books (not the new ebookstore) you can previewRobert 
>Borski's "The Long and Short of it" book. On page 36 he lays out the Latro 
>Werewolf idea.  Pretty amazing. I'm going to have to keep that in mind when I 
>read it again.
>
> ~Mike
>
> On Dec 10, 2010, at 10:43 AM, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
>
>> Only if the dream is the dream of a wolf. ;)
>>
>> Or perhaps Wolfe's dog dreaming he is a wolf dreaming of being a man ...
>>
>> On 12/10/2010 1:02 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>> David Stockhoff wrote (10-12-2010 17:44):
>>>> Missed that one. Does Latro fail to remember anything in the morning
>>>> because he ran around as a wolf all night?
>>>>
>>>> Plausible, if difficult to imagine.
>>> What about this one: Latro is a character in someone's recurring dream. Each 
>>>time the dreamer wakes Latro goes into oblivion, and in the next dream Latro's 
>>>memory of what happened during the previous dream is all fog. Now, who's the 
>>>dreamer?
>>>
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