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“I have disturbed my own tomb, now I go to lie in it”

You are two, as people are normally counted. How many do you think I am?

~100 pages left. Gene Wolfe is a true 5 tool player. Style, imagination, control, pathos, erudition. He’s got it all folks. It’s control and erudition that I feel so many writers, especially american scifi writers, struggle with. He knows exactly what he intends to say and has the skill to say it in a compelling way. It’s convoluted but there’s nothing improvised or out of place.

I’ve read through four dense books to get to the storytelling contest here in CotA, which i read before I started BotNS and is the main reason I picked up the book in the first place. It’s probably my favourite passage in any piece of fiction I’ve ever read. Just incredible.