Wolfe's Answer re Torturers' Guild -Reply

Wesley Parsons (7065) · 17 Jun 1997, 13:52 · from whorl-v0006.mbox · original

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From: Wesley Parsons (7065) <WRP at adorno.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Wolfe's Answer re Torturers' Guild -Reply
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:52:05
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

>>> Silk is a member [of the guild].  Either Silk is (or has been/will be)
 a torturer.  Severian has to be the best candidate.<<<

>>Or maybe...

"All men are torturers." - Severian

-Rostrum<<

Well said.  But taking Severian's quote literally . . . half the Whorl
are torturers.  Wolfe identified Silk in particular (and not Blood, or Pike=
, or
Horn, etc) as a member of the guild.

Wes

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