
Chapters 28 and 29 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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The Importance of Stage Management in Execution
The orchok is a symbol associated with light and divinity. Saverian tells Agilis how to prepare for an execution in this chapter. He describes it out of order so that he does not have to describe it later. This is very similar to when at the masking ceremony he described three or four different ways the history of the torturers guild might have been told but never said which one was true.
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