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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 - < jwilson@clueland.com ><BR>A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab<BR>< http://www.tamut.edu/cil ><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Urth Mailing List<BR>To post, write urth@urth.net<BR>Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<BR></BODY></HTML>