<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 29, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Christopher Simon <<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">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.</div></div>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com">Jeff Wilson</a></span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">7/29/2013 2:39 PM</span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">The Urth Mailing List</a></span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Re: (urth) Latro Thoughts</span><br><br></div><br>On Mon, July 29, 2013 12:04, Fernando Gouvea wrote:<br>> From what Wolfe has been saying, another /Soldier/ seems very unlikely.<br>><br>> The interaction with the gods is central to the Latro books in way that<br>> go way beyond the /Long Sun/ books, I think.<br><br>Yes, and I believe the the pagan gods in the SOLDIER books are intended to<br>be literally that, as Wolfe has professed his belief in the existence of<br>lesser gods like those recorded as inferior rivals of the Old Testament<br>God.<br><br><br>-- <br>Jeff Wilson - < <a href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com">jwilson@clueland.com</a> ><br>A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab<br>< <a href="http://www.tamut.edu/cil">http://www.tamut.edu/cil</a> ><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Urth Mailing List</span><br><span>To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a></span><br><span>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>