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Chapter 38 and Appendix - Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch

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I'm Only Going to Make Two Copy of This Book

Cevarian appears to be saying i'm only ever going to make two copies of this book So when we talk about this being a political tract Or something that's making a political statement or point to his contemporaries This seems to nip that whole idea in the bud for sure right yeah. But I also say it doesn't seem like from his narrative that the idea that books are being published in a way that doesn't require hand copying Right exists. Yes, but we don't know how long he's been autark And we do know one of his goals as autark is to encourage the writing of books and presumably with that comes the publishing and the reading of books as well.

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