Gene Wolfe's New Sun stuff

Donald Lindsay · 05 Oct 1992, 00:56 · from sf-lovers.1992.mbox

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From: lindsay+ at cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe's New Sun stuff
Date: 5 Oct 92 00:56:36 GMT
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rabin-dan at cs.yale.edu writes:
>woman who ran away from `some order of monials', and that she was taken by
>the torturers and bore a child.  At the beginning of _The Shadow of the
>Torturer_ we learn that torturers are taken exclusively from children born
>to their `clients'.

We also learn that sometimes, the Seekers For Truth and Penitence are
instructed to rape a client. Wasn't this a clue that Severian's father is
the torturer who told him this?

Don C. Lindsay
Carnegie Mellon Computer Science

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