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Chapters 18 and 19 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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The Botanic Gardens

The botanic gardens are something that the autarky is willing to both make it worthwhile and keep it open to the public. The structure of the inside as a Gia describes it is a corridor with a series of rooms that lead off it. There's no vegetation except for a large plant, one plant, half bush, half vine with cruel curved thorns. Jean Wolf's wife is named Rose and roses frequently appear in wolf literature, just as wolves.

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