*blinks* I didn't even notice anything odd about that statement until I read the second comment. And I thought I'd sobered up....

So, anyway, American Gods, good book, yes? I'm in the middle of a reread at the moment (well, actually, it's possibly only the second time I've read it, or maybe the third, I forget - not the nth as it would be with Good Omens, f'r instance), which has possibly predisposed me to see aging deities where they might not have been intended.

(my current excuse for incoherence is tiredness after staying up faaar too late last night reading something very meta. and no alcohol at all. honest.)