
Chapters 28 and 29 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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The Importance of Direct and Receptive Autarky
"I was eager to actually perform the act in which I had been drilled so long," Cebarian says. "It's still an execution. I mean, there's no way about that." In addition to him making a larger autarkical argument for this idea of swift justice, he's also saying, I have a job. Yep. Let me get through and be the person who ends things that need to be ended".
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