Torturer's Guild justification

Daniel D Jones · 12 Apr 2005, 11:39 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

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From: ddjones at riddlemaster.org (Daniel D Jones)
Date: Tue Apr 12 11:39:17 2005
Subject: (urth) Torturer's Guild justification
Message-ID: <200504121437.44169.ddjones at riddlemaster.org>

There's a passage in the BOTNS where Severian gives a justification for the 
Torturers Guild.  He talks about long term imprisonment being a drain on 
society, work programs taking jobs from the indigent, etc.  Unlike Severian, 
I forget things and I can't recall which book it's in.  A memory jog or 
pointer to the quote would be greatly appreciated.

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