
Chapters 20 and 21 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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What's the Word of God in the Bible?
The Commonwealth has different names for God than what we're used to. The lower classes seem to have no compulsion about saying G.O.D. God, while the elevated classes do tend to be a little more poetic in the references to him. So if this is a reminiscence of that culture that they still held on to maybe it's like in the back of their mind. They've just been raised that way and even though they're like psychologically caught up in thinking that they're back in the 1800s, they still kind of scape this cultural trait.
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