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Writing Excuses 10.28: Polytheism in Fiction, with Marie Brennan

Writing Excuses

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Curse of the Shallion

G.K. Chesterton says that blasphemy is a function of belief, and if anybody doubts that, let him try to seriously blaspheme against Odin. And so belief is a prerequisite for blasphemy to even be possible. Joel's series that began with Curse of the Shallion has a... with a fifth god that not everybody believes in. If you insist that there's a fifth god, they cut off your thumb because now there's only four nine.

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