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Chapter 37 - Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch

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Severion's Birth in Prison

Severion is born in the lowest possible position he could be, right? Spend his life being raised in imprisonment. Go through this journey where he keeps being imprisoned only to blossom out of it. This problem of imprisonment and death to be that thing that will emancipate humanity. It's almost poetic enough that you wonder if maybe the guy who's writing this was able to insert a couple of lines in here and say, oh yeah, her name was Catherine. That's a very old-fashioned name.

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