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Chapters 4 and 5 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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Severian's Third Level Is Reserved for Mad Clients

Severian says that third level was reserved for mad clients. Or clients who the torture has driven insane and they're no longer like usable. The suggestion he has that things haven't been moved in well over a hundred years is really telling about how much disrepair in this area. It's obvious that some of these are actual wounds from fighting or some sort of conflict on Triskell, but there are also elements to hear like his ears being pointed very, very sharply That might have been cosmetic changes that happened to Triskell at the bear tower.

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