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“How terrible it is that we know our stories only when we have lived them!”

I’m a much bigger fan of this ending the second time around. I feel only marginally less stupid than the first time I read BOTNS. Book is done; review to come.

Gunny runs into Severian after he briefly worries he went blind

…Burgundofara is the patron saint of eye complaints…

Gene Wolfe é um mago das palavras

Severian: "Famulimus is always singing"

Famulimus: *speaks in iambic pentameter*

I weep that my craft will never be as subtle and skillful as Gene Wolfe's