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I like this part better than his time with the guild. More colourful characters.
Apr 28, 2026 01:40PM
The Shadow of the Torturer


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Very occasionally in this book, there's comedy, like this:

"He mispronounced quite common words: urticate, salpinx, bordereau."
Apr 25, 2026 12:33AM
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Interesting that Severian stumbles across a passage specifically regarding a technique where the whole of an image can be reconstructed from any part of it (like a hologram), leading him to discuss the corpse-eaters who can gain the memories of a person's entire life by eating any part of their body. This seems to be connected to the incident with the graverobbers earlier in the book.
Apr 16, 2026 04:09PM
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