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Chapters 1 and 2 - Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator

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The New Sun Is Coming Over the Horizon

This is the second reference to a sun line that involves the earth falling away from the sun. We still describe the sun coming over the horizon as if it's the sun that moves through the sky, right? Not the other way around. If Cevarian is positioning himself as the new son in his writing, it might be a subtle thing to position his conscience as one that puts the sun at the center and the earth as the moving body.

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