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Introduction and Chapter 1 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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The River of Death

There's a lot of Norse stuff for this book because I have a lots of Norse in it, right? No, it does not have a lot of Nordic, but the comparison with Gabriel's horn and Heimdall is trumpet. Like there's a definite possibility there. The fact that it's the river of death certainly plays into how it's viewed within the city of Nessus as we get on. This one completely over my head, the first reading. There was a shot, a thing I had never seen before, the bolt of violet energy splitting the darkness like a wedge so that it closed with a thunderclap. So that would be a very flowery description of a

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