
Chapters 20 and 21 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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Are We in the Same Place at the End of the Story?
Severian is positioning himself as somebody who is a believer and a dreamer. He wants to find more than what's blatantly in front of it. Agea says like, look, people get caught. Severian says, well, the savage could see us. And she comes up with kind of a BS explanation. I think she says the more people are caught, the more they can see past the veil of the illusion and see the real world.
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