(urth) Father Inire Theory cont.

[David Stockhoff]

It especially makes sense if you consider the curse to be an affliction 
that has its own rules, hidden from us. If it's not tied to the full 
moon, nor a nightly occurrence, it can come and go as Wolfe pleases. 
It's hard to disprove.

On 12/10/2010 6:07 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> 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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