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Chapter 1 - Gene Wolfe's The Sword of the Lictor

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The Sun Rises From the Dead, Right?

Mandelstyn's most famous poem is called the Stalin epigram. The idea of the sun rising from the dead, of course, speaks to the central conceit of the novel. But then also this imagery of the mounds of human heads takes on a very different kind of imagery here when we learn more about the nature of the setting in "Severean"

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