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Chapter 36 - Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch

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I'm a Monstrous, but Ball Danders Was a Monster.

This is someone who's going through the motions. He does not want to have a particular faith himself. The only reason he's doing this is out of fear that maybe he's wrong, but he has sort of this false religious ritual that he carries out for his own comfort and nothing else. So it's almost superstition level. Yeah. It's really funny too. In some ways he was my father, but he had built himself. And so you might call this kind of obligatory ritual a critique of religion. You could want it to go there. Right.

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